I hesitated to include all of my books. I feel mixed about them. On one hand, I am glad they exist and I am proud of them. On the other, I feel so far away from the person who wrote some of them that it almost feels like false advertising to portray them as a part of me (and, of course, this site isn't about my writing, so I'm not going to put much effort into this page).
But I suppose that’s life, and part of the point of everything connected to eXit se7en, the Living Code and the rest of this; our past may not define us, but it is a part of the story that led us to where we are now. It is, for all our failures and successes, the recipe of Now.
In this social media culture, we are so often pushed to throw away the past and pretend we are only the best version of ourselves. But I think this discourages people from ever trying, or from giving it their all in the first place. We need to be honest about our failures - even just the little things we would have done differently, or the things we no longer identify with. They aren’t weaknesses. None of them. Even the biggest failure is not a deviation from the path to success, but a vital and necessary step forward.
Flaunt your failures. Flaunt your past. Flaunt the things you no longer identify with, the things you wish you could change, and the things that make you cringe. Flaunt everything, because it is all a part of your story - and your story is what makes you who you are. And who you are is what makes your art what it is.
