About this ebook
You know this man. You may be this man.
This is not a self-help book. It will not give you a five-step framework or a morning routine or a reason to wake up at five in the morning and thank yourself for it. What it will do is sit in the room with you and refuse to look away.
With dark humor, unflinching honesty, and the philosophical weight of someone who has clearly read too much Kierkegaard, this book examines the quiet, peculiar experience of being a man who is close — very close — to the life he intended, but not quite there. The man who has forty-seven tabs open and has watched eleven minutes of a documentary about furniture. The man whose best intentions die every Wednesday. The man who has the almost-conversation but talks about the weather instead. The man with the ghost in the spare room who drinks his coffee and uses his gym membership.
Inside you will find:
• Martin, who has been fine for eleven years and is not fine
• Derek and his colour-coded document that his partner called "the most organised cry for help she had ever seen"
• Richard, who has been in the Research Phase of learning piano for thirteen years
• Owen, who stopped writing at twenty-nine and started again at fifty-one
• Simon, who finally said the fifteen most uncomfortable words of his life — and what happened after
• A complete field guide to men who mean well, including the Researcher, the Planner, the Almost-Starter, the Understander, and the Almost-Finisher
• An honest reckoning with the ghost you keep in the spare room, the tabs you will never close, the conversation you have been almost having, and the door that was never locked
This is Book One of a ten-book series for men who are tired of being told comfortable things.
The waiting room will always be there. The question is only whether you're still in the chair.
