Would you ask someone anonymous for advice online? Not advice on which car to buy or which book to read, but life advice. About love, career, grief, family and relationships. I thought of this as I read Cheryl Strayed’s “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There.” The book is a compilation of advice columns Strayed wrote online as “Sugar” on The Rumpus.net. Unlike other advice columns, “Dear Sugar” became a cult-favourite because it offered something which is increasingly missing in modern life — radical empathy. It doesn’t deal with problems by using abstract jargon. There’s no “find yourself by taking a vacation which is really just running away from your issues.” Instead, the advice is usually “sit down with yourself, begin the hard work of digging yourself out of this hole, stop self-pity and get therapy.”
Asking for, and Giving Advice
Asking for, and Giving Advice
Asking for, and Giving Advice
Would you ask someone anonymous for advice online? Not advice on which car to buy or which book to read, but life advice. About love, career, grief, family and relationships. I thought of this as I read Cheryl Strayed’s “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There.” The book is a compilation of advice columns Strayed wrote online as “Sugar” on The Rumpus.net. Unlike other advice columns, “Dear Sugar” became a cult-favourite because it offered something which is increasingly missing in modern life — radical empathy. It doesn’t deal with problems by using abstract jargon. There’s no “find yourself by taking a vacation which is really just running away from your issues.” Instead, the advice is usually “sit down with yourself, begin the hard work of digging yourself out of this hole, stop self-pity and get therapy.”