We look to those who seem serene, content—the embodiment of up and to the right—and fail to see the struggles they have lived through. We project onto them our wishes and expectations of reaching that point where all things are at peace and we never, ever have bodily odor. Everyone else’s journey is so much easier. Everyone else’s business is so much more successful. And if only someone—you—would show me the steps on the path, give me a map, then I can get there, too.
