Other people will always appear to move with dedication and consequence. How else does a person behave when people are watching? We all pretend that our decisions and accomplishments took us in a straight line forward, decisively moving from one success to the next. We gloss over that year wasted looking at old photos or washing our hardwood floors over and over, wishing that we’d create something of consequence instead. We don’t mention the year we started and stopped three different screenplays or furiously typed out bad poetry at our go-nowhere temp jobs.
