
Here is an excerpt from my book which will be available in a week’s time.
I don’t know how I should I finish this book because I don’t know what is next for me in life. Will I clean up my act? Will I get a job, or my driver’s license even? Who knows.
You know that Jack Kerouac went his whole life on the road writing his alcoholic what-have-yous and he never even drove or had his license. Isn’t that amazing?
I know that inevitably I will obtain my license, I just have this terrible test anxiety now, it runs in the family. My mom didn’t get her license ’til she was much, much older.
I know that one day when I have a car and something goes wrong, I’m just going to drive and drive and drive until I am in the desert, until my hair dries out and turns golden white, until I am wearing cowboy boots and listening to crackly static on the radio and I have a bottle of scotch whiskey between my legs, until I reach that tiny payphone and call you up and tell you to meet me by the cactus and the lagoon, until you are the last voice I hear before I am gone.
You know, stupid romantic bullshit like that.
I want to tell you something insightful and I want to leave you with some hope about me and where I am going to next and if I will tell you about it when I get there, but I sometimes worry that once I finish writing this, I will have nothing left.
I can’t go off on another fucked up adventure and lose my mind and become a whole new person with new visions and experiences. This depression I have, this is what I have, this is all I have it feels and this book is like my memoirs I think.
Memoirs at twenty-two. That sounds like a good title.
Marketable Depression, Lauren White.





