Daniel Robert Epstein: Marc Forster

That last quote in the interview where M Forster says you lose the ground if you get too involved with all the people, too social and don't spend enough time with yourself. He just answered a whole set of issues for me. It's wild, but it's a struggle a lot of the time to be perceived as an entertaining person and therefore a social person or someone who should be. Then you try to live up to it and end up flopping around off center and not accomplishing much. It leaves you wondering where time went and why it seems you were so much more imaginative when you were little or younger or a teenager.

Truth is when you were little, or younger, or a teenager there was a whole list of excuses why you could be on your own. Everything from over active/developing imagination to you being just too damn moody. Whatever, it was more okay to be alone and sometimes even lonely. As an adult or as a success it is less okay to be alone or lonely. You are supposed to have a life. But what if your life is a rich internal one? And what if what you do requires focus and listening to what's in your head and in your heart and maybe even time to process what you have heard from the people around you.

I'm trying to get this right, and I feel I'm making a mess of it when all I want to say to M Forster is thanks for the back up. I needed to hear it. And I needed to hear it, now.

Now, I'm all stoked to see your work.