Hey, Kid!
I hope that this finds you well and that life has been treating you well.
If you are a thing, that is.
All do you readers as well! I hope you all have been doing amazingly in whatever you've been doing!
I've been quite busy working on my main book series, so I've been a bit detached from the world, but I got this! And I won't have folks waiting around for too much longer lol.
What's new on my end?
Eh, lol not so much, really! Just taking things one day and one chapter and one poem and one old journal entry at a time!
I can't thank you all for your love and loyalty.
It's been quite the ride, and you're still around for some reason, lol.
Young me would be both astounded and anxious as shit!
He would also be very, very grateful to each and every one of you.
And YOU, Kid?
I don't know, honestly.
I remember telling myself as a kid that I would be a bachelor when I grew up.
Crazy thing is, I really had no idea what that really meant at such a young age.
Here I am, still single, lol.
It's okay.
I like being single, outside of the loneliness that comes with that at times, you know?
That will change when I am ready for it to change. The past three years have been quite healing and cathartic for me.
In many ways.
This book and the others that I write and have written have been a huge help.
You all reading along has been a huge help.
I can't thank you all enough.
I will leave you at that, yeah?
See you all back here soon, folks.
You as well, Kid.
Enjoy.
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December 14th, 2018.
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Dear You.
It's December.
My birth month!
I'll be 30 this year.
I look forward to whatever else comes.
Including you.
You the most, little one.
-Dad.
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Hmm.
-I don't care for my birthday, you know?
It's never really been my kinda day.
December 31st.
The world celebrates, but no one seems to remember...me.
The individual.
Apart from that weird feeling, my Godmother passed away on my birthday.
That was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.
I have to give my most recent ex some credit; she really did try to make my birthday special at times. She would throw me little parties when I came home from work, and that wasn't unpleasant, but it was just never enough to get that strange, heavy feeling to go away.
Till this day, I am not one for my birthday. It comes and it goes.
Maybe that will change someday.
Maybe YOU will walk into my life as the best birthday gift that I could ever imagine, Kid.
Maybe.
I can, and will continue to dream.
-I am 36 now, yeah? Still no kid, that I am aware of. Such is life, yeah?
This world is weird, and everyone my age is so traumatized by past relationships that they fear letting anyone in.
We will all just be single forever, huh?
Wild.
I still do my best to enjoy life, even if I do that solo, for now.
I'm not rushing into a relationship till I am ready for that rush again.
Healing is important, folks. Kid.
Take care of your heart and mind.
Those two things, and TIME is all that we have.
Use it well.
I will see you all back here soon, yeah?
Should the Universe will it, that is.
I love all of you.
You too, Kid.
Keep your wits about you out there, yeah?
Stay safe.
Stay healthy.
Stay vigilant.
-Redd.