Hello, I’m Amanda.
I’m the person behind the words you read on Not Enough Coffee. This is where all the blogging advice blogs say I should tell you about how great I am and how im super qualified to tell you what to think. Well….. fuck that.
Im 28, I sleep too much, and drink too much coffee.
I have a mountain of student loan debt from a wasted education that is unfinished and unusable, I watch too many movies, I have an unhealthy love of Star Wars, I sometimes drink too much vodka, and I work in a soul sucking and spine crushingly boring job that I hate, in an industry based on greed and ignorance.
Everyday I see and interact with people who are selfish and completely unaware of themselves or others around them. They are rude and lazy and they make me lose all faith in humanity. They are the consumer frenzy.
I don’t want to despise people, and I don’t want to think its all hopeless. In less than 2 years I’ll be 30 and to steal from Lethal Weapon, “I’m getting too old for this shit.”
I want to be a better person. I want to find hope, faith and inspiration in myself and the world around me. I want to level up.
I have at least 20 self help and personal development blogs in my RSS Feeder and everyday they tell me to “keep my chin up.” None of them seem to have a problem or care in the world. They’ve all become perfect in their searches for developmental bliss and now they pass their sage advice on to you and me. But the advice seems all too perfect. Like its the easiest thing in the world to change, be perfect and blissful. Its at best, cheesy and at worst patronizing and degrading.
I’m not a doctor, or an expert. I haven’t written best selling books. (Though someday I might.) I’m just a girl, trying to be better. Struggling to keep my shit together in the world that tries to make me crazy.
We are all struggling through this life. This is my struggle to find purpose, direction and hope. This is the place I will share what I find.
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Tags: better person, boring job, consumer frenzy, faith and inspiration, humanity, personal development, sage advice, struggle
This should be the forward in your book.