Where were you 10 years ago?
Oh, hi friends!
The Daily Beast's 10th anniversary party was the other night. It felt like a high school reunion.
It was so fun to see my friends. But it was even more amazing to see what everyone is doing. Some people are three jobs removed from the Beast. Others are still there, making the site churn and soar a decade after critics thought it would flop. People are writing books and going freelance and working on projects and entirely new careers. There remains a common thread—these people were ambitious and brilliant and kind and are still the same as ever.
"Ten years went by so fast—and yet so slow," someone said to me. It’s true. And yet it made me want to reflect a little more often on exactly how much can happen in a decade—or even a year.
Maybe take a second and think about where you were in October 2008. I was devastated after being laid off from an editorial assistant job I had for one month, but didn't know I was about to become an intern at a little start-up called The Daily Beast.
So much can happen! So much will happen. So much is happening.
Glow forth, my friends.
(Mr. Sondheim declined to be interviewed for this article, saying he was busy at work on his new musical.)
This story is about the new iteration of Stephen Sondheim’s Company with a woman as the lead character of Bobby/Bobbi—opening soon in London—but this parenthetical was my favorite bit.
Oh, the New York Times is calling? Cool. But. I’m working.
Sondheim’s 88 years old, by the way.
There are no mistakes, says Oprah.
But when you’re not centered, you get all flustered, you get stressed all the time.
Yet there is a supreme moment of destiny calling on your life.
Failure is just that thing trying to move you in another direction. The losses are there to wake you up.
Your life is bigger than any one experience.
When you're not at ease with yourself, that is the cue that you need to move in another direction.
The way through the challenge is to get still and ask yourself...
“What is the next right move?”
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara