'Why Did No One Tell Me That Life Is So Limited?'

This crushing moment has the power to show you exactly who you are.

Hospitalité (1958) by Dorothea Tanning

Polly,

I've been reluctant to write to you because my problems are so all-consuming and yet so non-tangible, and I don't even know if I have the words for them.

I'm 24, from London, and I graduated from university last summer. I was incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to spend the last year of university on excha…