Ask Baba Yaga: How Can I Make The Most Of My Time?

Transcript after the jump.

Dear Baba Yaga,

I have a few months before I start a very demanding program that will probably take up the next decade of my life. I have no idea what to do with my remaining time. Everyone I meet tells me to “Make the most of it” or “Enjoy it while it lasts,” etc. I’ve decided to spend some of it abroad (and in fact am writing from abroad right now), but to be honest my life here feels just as unenchanted as my life at home. How do I deal with the pressure to make these last few months mean something?

BABA YAGA:

There is no pleasure ; in the waiting ever, the waiting is a long thread the grand crone of time pulls through yr body, holding the needle on the other side of you, winking, thinking. ) This worry crawls up yr bed now when you want it least, & will not stop until the thread passes through & this New Time that you are barreling towards, this New Time that seems as the maw of a prison, will in truth be the place in which you are free to move ; it is the now, in the barrel of yr hot last hours, which the prisonest.

Previously: Can You Help Me With Work And Money?

Taisia Kitaiskaia is a poet, writer, and Michener Center for Writers fellow. She’s taking questions on behalf of Baba Yaga at [email protected].