Birthday Letter #1
36 Years Old and 36 Chambers
-For the Uncensored!
What makes this letter a fun thing to write is that nobody ever takes the time to consider what a birthday actually means. If you’re busy all the time, sure. Maybe I didn’t, because I only saw numbers as a slightly relative concept. It’s not until you get told to “date women your own age” is when it kicks in. But this doesn’t mean it can’t happen. But to celebrate one’s birth in an open letter admits that slight perception when such a feeling occurs. Such as age is a wealth of memories, the time it takes to fit one’s accomplishment into a single document is outstanding. While many were living lives, I was creating worlds that would be withheld for a long time. I did this for a reason., I needed a literary war chest so that when the time comes I would edit and publish and not have to worry about writing fiction anymore. But something about being 36 is special. It’s a moment when all that experience in your life has to materialize into something grand. With a lot of fiction writing under my belt, and articles published daily, one can only just say, “Are you ever going to stop?”
This is the only time I see writing as a public service. To unleash my thoughts on politics and art can be draining, and I do have some fiction I write to release some tension. As a pressure valve. But accomplishments sometimes, to me, is better when you’re dead. That dead person doesn’t have to regale all the pain and sorrow they have felt. They can rest easy knowing that nothing can touch them.
Unless it’s harassment beyond the grave, and still Shakespeare would laugh and tell his critics to fuck off. The very notion of being 36 creates this process of unanimous gifts that turned into such a passion. To unleash my work onto the people is the way my 30’s started off. The consistent direction of looking forward and back, but always keeping my goals ahead of me.
Maybe on a post-it note. For me, always in a journal. But as I am 36, on February 2nd, 2022, it takes a lot to consider. After 19 published books, and editing constantly, and trying to find deals for my edited work, it can be stressful. But if profit means that you’re supposed to make money, I should be at Mcdonalds. But then, a job in 2022 is a touchy subject for everyone. No one likes what they do to survive. For millennials to have gone through the Iraq and Afghanistan war, robbed from 401 K and benefits the Boomers and Gen Xers have, I’m sure it’s easy to pretend that can happen.
But as such consistency is allowed and firmly pressed within my talents, I’m lucky to be alive. After surviving a blood clot at 21, it became my life’s goal to write. It’s not like I didn’t, but I was living on borrowed time long before COVID-19. After losing so much sleep in my 20’s, it’s hard to consider that time as uneventful. Friends fizzled out of my life, and turned out they weren’t friends. It’s easy to live like you’re in high school when your friends didn’t have the same goals as you.
I rarely speak to them, but the consistency in my goals were always out of touch to people who loved me. I get it. It seems impossible. To fight that means not having the best relationship. But then, families always want the best there efforts are always limited. It’s easy to suggest a medical career when you don’t have the skill sets available. Sometimes, it’s too hard to start over when you’re in your 30’s.
But my family always deserves thanks. They are there when I needed them. The friends I made along the way are worth it too. When the trash takes itself out, you can find better friends, too.
But then, being 36 holds a special significance. 36 is a number that proves there’s nothing more left to the façade before us. Sometimes talented people wane where I find myself exploring other avenues. Crafting articles, sharing opinions, sometimes hot, cold, and neutral, but I think I learned the game backwards. To craft articles first while you have something to promote creates value. If nobody knows your work, no one can buy it.
Being 36 is a direct influence of sight and sounds that only one who allows grace to shine forth. Some, in there 30’s, lost their careers. Some have been shunned from society. If we’re all broken, don’t worry, you’re in good company. To wake up in the middle of the night, unable to sleep. It’s all there. The time of burning fires lost in the ageless thoughts that flow before me.
If these articles are a public service, to address that deep wound in society, it’s working. In art, addressing personal wounds is where that must stay, and reflect character and plot and excitement. Also exorcism. But sometimes, pulling back is in my best nature, too. To have clarity and deference over hot headed thoughts. I do not seek violence, but sometimes it happens. And I look only toward the good, but sometimes, society isn’t good. Society isn’t fair. Being 36 is just another chamber, and having that chamber, is where the Wu-Tang sword style has its meaning.
To Return to the 36 Chambers, as Old Dirty Bastards eponymous album states, it’s a revitalization of sorts. When the outcome of all your best efforts shine outside yourself and beyond. To be famous was never my goal. And don’t believe people who say you shouldn’t chase it. They just don’t want you to take their spot. So, chase that chamber.
With 35 years behind me, hopefully another 36 years of art and writing to accomplish.
-Louis Bruno is the author of more than 19 books, including, The Michael Project, The Michael Project: Book 2: The Lost Children of Eve, Thy Kingdom Come, The Disintegrating Bloodline (and the original text re-released in 2019), Apocalypse Soldier, The Data Chase, Selection: The First Book of the Life and Death Saga, and Blinking Eyes: The Second Book of the Life and Death Saga, Hierarchy of Dwindling Sheep, The City of Sand, To the Moon and Back, The Villain Lives and The Villain Lives: The Divided Pinpoint, Come Home, Young One. He has a Bachelor of Arts in English from University of Phoenix. His books can be found on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Lulu. He can be found on Gab, https://gab.com/thereallouistbruno, Minds https://www.minds.com/lbruno8063/. Instagram @lbrruno8063 and @louisbrunoofficialbook. Our Freedom Book https://www.ourfreedombook.com/thereallouistbruno17. He has written for the Intellectual Conservative and Ephemere. His next series, City of Sand is out now:https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/louis-bruno/city-of-sand/hardcover/product-rke9jz.html?page=1&pageSize=4. Also, if you can’t subscribe so that you can get members only content, please be sure to share the articles, as well. If you do Subscribe, as well so you can get my articles in your inbox every time. Every little bit helps in the war against Big Tech.
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