u/JuiceSeparate8005

I am having a conundrum. I was born a girl in 1967; I'm a Gen X baby. Black and white TV with 5 Channels, no video games, no books, but we did have radio. You got kicked out the door first thing; school, weekends, after school. Rarely was anyone home when my brother and I got home. We had to entertain ourselves, we were left to our own devices, we were abused, neglected, and treated like shit, but it made us tough. We were raised like barbarians.

Fast forward to today, I wrote a book about growing up, and drug abuse, to 12 Step recovery. THEY say, you have to put yourself out there, get on social media (really?), I self-publish and THEY say, it's easy. I think since it's online everyone will find it. They do not. I Google and nothing is what it says, now I have to do Metadata, whatever that means. I have faced the reality that I have no idea what I'm doing. I don't do computers!

I am a barbarian, Scandinavian, a Viking. I'm from the line that fought themselves into extinction, the line that was the crippled and lame section. I go outside, I entertain myself doing physical things, I clean, I garden, I can't sit still. I am a person that if I can't get a square ped in a round hole I get out the power tools and cut the round peg.

I think I'm reaching the point that I don't care if anyone reads this book and smashing my laptop with a sledgehammer in the driveway and lighting it on fire, but I won't because I'm a doer and refuse to let life beat me. I will figure this out because it's important and what I was placed on this Earth to do, but I am NOT gonna like it and will complain to ANYONE who will listen............. Thank you for listening (big smile)