Going forward
Résumé after five posts within one week
This Substack started out as a challenge as part of a coaching session with dream developer Matthias Hombauer, who urged me to do something that can be started immediately without overthinking it. My first intuition was a newsletter that might give a bit of energy and/or inspiration to readers in the morning. I have thought about writing personal film reviews or even some kind of autobiography connected to movies, or establishing a brand as a media pundit, for a while – so I decided to take these thoughts and combine them into Can a Film Save Your Life? The plan was to write 5 posts within a week, which I have now achieved over the last 7 days. I won’t keep up that pace going forward, but after experiencing the joy of creating & critical thinking on my own terms, and therefore reclaiming some agency over my life, I decided to continue this newsletter beyond the initial exercise. To paraphrase J.D. in the series finale of Scrubs (not counting the season 9 spin-off):
“As for the future, it doesn’t seem so scary anymore. It can be whatever I want it to be.”