A New Correspondence Begins
From memoir to manifesto: announcing nothingness.me + The Last Existential Crisis
Hello friends,
I'm writing to share something I've been working on for the past three years—something that started as a personal crisis and became a book.
You know those 3am moments when you catch your reflection in the bathroom mirror and suddenly think, "Who am I, really?" That question grabbed me by the throat and wouldn't let go. So I did what writers do: I followed it down the rabbit hole.
What I found was that our endless search for the "authentic self" might be the very thing keeping us lost. The more frameworks I tried, the more fractured I felt. The more answers I consumed, the more the questions multiplied.
The Last Existential Crisis is what emerged from that journey—a book about why you'll never find yourself, and why that's actually the whole point.
A Different Kind of Correspondence
I've launched a new Substack specifically for this work: nothingness.me
Over the coming weeks, I'll be sharing excerpts, insights, and what I call "correspondence"—a way of engaging with life's deepest questions without demanding they submit to neat answers. Think a sort of philosophical jazz: improvising meaning through direct encounter rather than following predetermined scores.
This isn't self-help. It's not therapy-speak. It's something much messier and I think much more honest—for anyone who's discovered that the tools meant to deliver us to ourselves sometimes scatter us further.
Zero Pressure
I'm not auto-migrating anyone from this list. That wouldn't feel right for this kind of work.
If the idea of wrestling with existential questions through the lens of "correspondence" interests you—if you're drawn to thinking that feels more like jazz than logic—then I'd love to have you join this new conversation.
If not, zero pressure. Seriously. I'll still be here, still writing, still figuring out what it means to live a memoir worth writing.
But if you're one of those people who's ever stared into the mirror at 3am and been horrified by the silence that answered back—if you're tired of chasing yourself in circles and ready to try dancing with the questions instead—then maybe this correspondence is for you.
The first excerpt drops Monday. The spiral awaits.
With gratitude for this journey we've shared,
Euwyn
P.S. The Last Existential Crisis will be published in 2025. This Substack is where the book begins its conversation with the world.