Advice to you if you don't mind: Chronicle everything. The progression, the ideas, the motives, the inspiration, and the events. One year later, you'll have
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everything you need to put a book together.
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Every 2-3 days if possible
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When I first started this blog, I had pretty grandiose notions of what it could accomplish. I thought that if I just created the right inspirational content and got it into the hands of the right people, the whole world would come together to "solve" college depression. My hope was that college students struggling with depression would stumble across my blog, find a friend in my words, and find the courage to take action to overcome their depression.
Reality check - didn't happen.
What did happen, roughly:
1 I rambled.
2 I made an ass of myself trying to publicize these ramblings.
The third thing that happened, I think, was that my (soon-to-be) team saw how crazy I was (see 1 and 2), and for whatever combination of reasons decided to take the time to give me a little direction. Eventually, they decided to join me.
Thank you, blog.
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But this story doesn't have a happy ending.
Just a few weeks after Hari sent me that message, we fell apart. As anyone who's ever tried to start a venture probably knows, it's hard as hell to keep a team together (especially when you're broke).
To be honest, sometimes I feel like I've failed. Big time.
But then I remember that failure is only failure if you haven't learned anything from it.
With that in mind, and at both Hari's and Colin's suggestions (and with Dan's blessing), I've decided to briefly chronicle what happened this past half year or so. If nothing else, it'll help me sort out just what there is to learn from this whole experience.
Man, do I hate writing. Retroactively, I always come off somewhat more juvenile, sentimental, arrogant, self-centered, inconsiderate, irrelevant, or just plain crazy than I'd like to...
-David
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