Hello, my friend, and welcome to another glorious day! I clicked on Random Reads, up popped your essay, so here I am. I'm not usually much on reviewing essays; much easier to lower the boom on fiction writers, and who am I to criticize your opinions, anyway? But this one struck me. It's such a positive, uplifting message for anyone who's feeling the strain of modern life, that it should be recommended reading, in fact I'm going to do that as soon as I am finished here.

But enough prattle; this is a review, so on to business.

INITIAL IMPRESSION: Good advice delivered in a positive tone. A visually "clean" piece of work in my favorite font, that invites the eye to partake. With its short, even-sized paragraphs, it could almost be a sneaky sort of poem.

DETAILED IMPRESSION: There are, of course, no characters or dialogue to pontificate over, but as far as overall composition, grammar and punctuation, and delivery of your all-important message, I find nothing to correct. It is frankly a pleasure to read a work as carefully crafted as this one is. Very little kills a profound message faster than having to re-read sentence after sentence in a futile effort to figure out what the hell the writing is trying to say. There is none of that here, and I cannot find a single instance where I could improve it. That applies to your content as well. Of course, this is your essay, but everyone always looks at a piece of writing and thinks that they could have said it better, but not in this case.

OVERALL IMPRESSION: As you may have gathered by what I've already said, this is a superbly engineered piece of inspirational writing. Everyone needs some form of sanctuary, and you can usually spot the ones who haven't found it by their neuroses and irritability. Great work, my friend, and you are to be commended for a fine job. Keep this up and I'm sure you'll develop a broad fan base before you know it!

All the best in all things always!

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