Attempting Normal

by Marc Maron

You could just step out from under the chuppah, walk slowly past a crowd of stunned faces, climb onto a horse, ride to Mexico, and become a cowboy. That’s how real cowboys are made. Show up at a bar in Juarez and say, “Hola, amigo. What can I get for this ring?” Clink.

We all have the right to cherry-pick the advice given us in order to do exactly what we wanted to do in the first place.

I was thinking about how temporary disappointment can be if you don’t linger on it too long and how there are beautiful things in the world if you look. It’s up to you to find them for yourself.

we explain things away when we don’t want to take full responsibility for actions that are frightening and disastrous. It’s the core of mysticism.