Erica Leduc
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For two summers I’d been living and working on a dude ranch in Wyoming, with just under 20 other people plus the guests. I decided pretty early on that once the 2019 season was over, I was going to go somewhere and be by myself for a bit. Eating with and seeing the same people 24/7 for 6 months and never really feeling like I could be entirely “off,” wore down on me in ways I hadn’t expected, most notably being my desire and capacity to socially interact, and my mental health. So, when the opportunity to come up to my parents’ old home in the woods of Quebec, on 2.5 acres near a lake, I wasn’t going to turn that down. I also felt the need to have time to figure out what I actually wanted to do next, instead of just jumping into the next available job that came along, or moving to the next place without a solid idea of what I wanted, which is how I have lived most of my life. I needed to change that, and I needed to make the decisions without the external sources of noise, however well-meaning the advice was, I felt that I would end up in a similar position as I had. Unsure.
By Erica Leduc4 years ago in Beat