L.J. Writes

it's got... so many complicated feelings and expectations and fears associated with it that it's hard both to do it and to let go of it. Like, when I'm doing it I feel terrible and inadequate, so I procrastinate. Then it eats up every other thing because I can't feel good about doing anything else while I'm feeling so much guilt over it. It's not very healthy, to say the least.

Is there a way to maybe take a break from it, and come back if you manage to work through that stuff, or let it go if it's not doable? Because that sounds like a godawful position to be in!

--Rogan, who spent a brief period wanting to be an academic (HAHAHA NO)