Show Don't Tell

by Curtis Sittenfeld

As you make your way through the world, you will feel bewildered, appalled, and charmed by other people. In the real version of all our days, as opposed to the version we publicly present, there are many undignified moments. The circumstances that distress you and the circumstances that distress someone else might not overlap in the slightest. In situations that make you nervous, do your best and proceed; others before you have also been nervous.