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Dear you,

You won’t see this. It’s been four years, so you won’t see this. It’s okay though. I just spent 30 minutes scrolling through this tumblr, re-reading all of the asks you used to send me, and remembering how much they used to settle my stomach and soothe the itch on the soles of my feet. I have no idea who you were, no idea *why* you started messaging me, but I just want to say thank you. You were very very kind to me when I was younger, and now I’m 23, older, a bit wiser, a bit sadder, a bit happier, I still think about you occasionally.

Pls message me on thehideousheart if you wanna? Or on twitter, I know you know my URL. I’d love to say thank you properly.

Love,

Sorcha x

#for you

Sorcha may be sad, but she's not superficial. Sorcha has an inner life that is the envy of the whole internet. I think Sorcha will map one day with pride the vast territory she has inside.

You are fucking brilliant. Thank you for being so kind to me all those years ago.

I have no idea if the person who used to send me anonymous messages around 4/5 years ago (?) will see this, but if you do, I want to thank you. You were so very kind and exactly what I needed at that point in my life.

#anon

If this helps, please try to distinguish between the experience of studying at a university, and the experience of having to share a flat with strangers away from home. (And if the second becomes really unbearable, I suppose you could always transfer your credits after the first year and continue studying at Bath, though the courses' contents will differ.) In any case, best wishes for 2016!

I don’t want to study in Bath, I just want to be a bit less... Isolated. I know it all sounds very woe is me, but I guess I’m just not a very resilient person... The academic advisor told me, to paraphrase, to basically ‘suck it up’ and maybe I should.. Who knows, Greyface! I hope you have an excellent 2016 whatever you may be doing.

It's "warrior", not "worrier" :P ... Best wishes for your move to York; you'll be back to see your dogs in Xmas, don't worry. After the first shock you'll love the first year of uni. Go get it!

I hope someone has been as nice to you as you have been to me over these past months.

You’re amazing.

About the 3ds: "Animal Crossing" is fun... at least when I played the first one on a PC emulator.

Animal Crossing is the best! I’ve already got it on my old DS but I’m desperate for the new one

Hope this helps... If anything, it may give ideas for character creation when writing fiction: it's the kind of stuff a playwright would be curious about. YouTube watch?v=nKNyFSLJy6o

Ooooooh this looks interesting, thank-you greyface!! I am struggling with characterisation in particular so hopefully this gets the ball rolling

If you are taking antidepressants, I hope they are accompanied by some form of therapy; medication would do little without it. Actually, what you experience now as trying times could be a blessing in disguise... Therapy at some point is good, it helps to "know thyself". Its goal would be not to eliminate all sadness (you wouldn't be you without a little of it) but to take it down to manageable, liveable levels. Take it as a new adventure, a journey inside yourself - I wish you the best!

I havent discussed taking antidepressants with the doctor yet, that conversation is yet to come, but I do think therapy is going to do me the world of good, if I can find the right person... Thank-you for your support, as always!!

P.S.: Yes, Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" *is* a great novel!... You may enjoy Paul Auster's collection of essays, "The Art of Hunger".

I’ll try and get hold of a copy - sounds interesting! thankyou for the recommendation, greyface.

(I hope I don't come out as lecturing.) “If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own feet, he or she may be a lifesaver, but the relationship is not one of love. Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.” / “Mature love is union under the condition of preserving one's integrity, one's individuality." / “The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.” / Erich Fromm, "The Art of Loving"

that’s not lecturing at all - I really needed that.

Thank-you as ever, greyface.

Clap, clap, clap! Here is something funny to celebrate. YouTube watch?v=VQZr9rnRNa8

this is excellent!!! Thank-you so much for your support, it means a lot :)

Holy @#*@*#!! ... Congratulations on the offer by King's College London! In spite of what you tend to think about yourself sometimes, you totally deserve things like this. All the best!

You're the best, greyface! Thankyou so so so much!!

From an article in The Guardian today, about playwright Tom Stoppard: "But what always fascinates me about his early life is the dog that didn't bark: the fact that, at 17, he didn't go from school to university, as you might expect, but instead became a Bristol journalist. That, for me, helps to explain why he acquired the intellectual voracity of the autodidact, and why his plays sometimes suggest showbiz razzle-dazzle underscored by hours in a library."

This is reassuring in a way I can't quite articulate

Went to Brighton today to watch Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" - a bit of an amateurish production, but worth while nevertheless, one of the great plays of the 90's and possibly one of Stoppard's best. It will be at the Theatre Royal in Bath from 9-14 February. --- On other matters, here is an awesome animation, that is about to become a reality somewhere this summer: youtube watch?v=4Ca6x4QbpoM

Oooooh okay thanks for the heads up! I'll do some research and see if I can scrape some funds together. An that animation is really cool - space travel is exciting!!

Thanks for the recommendation of "Into the wild"... and go see "Birdman", if you love the theater, you'll enjoy this one. May the new year be interesting.

I'm going to see it ASAP! Did you enjoy 'Into the wild'?? It's one of my favourite films!!

Thankyou so much, for all the messages you've sent me this year, you've been more useful than you'll ever know, greyface. Have an excellent 2015!

It may help to see your Monday interview not only as a sort of 'exam' on you, but also as a chance to ask THEM to do things for YOU. For example, you may tell them that you are passionate by both books and history, and ask them what can they do to nurture both of your passions.

you're always so helpful, greyface, I really do appreciate it!!

(that sounds sarcastic, I promise it's not)

Hey, congratulations on the Oxford interview! Go for it!

thankyou so much!!!! I am totally over the moon :D

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