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said. I ignored the bit about him being hard to love, which described everyone, ever. Hard to love was a pretty good definition of humanity in general.
But age isn’t just time passing. It’s time breaking you
way better than anything I’d done before. And I knew that who I was was not entirely dependent on my results. I am who I am because of who I am, not because of the commodities I generate or even the, you know, the sacred objects that I generate. I am not my results. I am my process.”
I put music on and dance alone in my room. It’s . . . joyous. As long as you can move, it’s a joy no one can take away from you.”
as life wore on, I would realize that most people think everyone hates them. The truth is worse; for most people, no one is thinking of them at all.
hope was a scorpion, and that if you poked at it, you would be stung.
Later, I would learn that was all most people wanted: to make everyone see how they’d been hurt.
