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Too bad how the end of something could ruin the beginning and middle of it.
we have all these egomaniacs quitting their normal jobs to go on free vacations and give business advice while not only contributing nothing of actual use or value but encouraging everyone else to do the same. They live gorgeously and effortlessly and make normal people jealous and dissatisfied with real life.”
Where do they come from?” Mackenzie was lost. “Uh . . . your . . . imagination?”
A mirror was designed so a person could see their own face. A face, with its eyes and nose and mouth and ears on the side, was designed to perceive the world, not to perceive itself. And what did people do? They made a thing that would block the world in front of them and replace that view with their own reflection.
Every time I found a flaw in myself after that, I just added it to the list of Reasons Richard Left Me. It was my face and my body and my mind and my sense of humor and my hair . . . all of the things that made me me. And do you know what I did? I ghosted myself.
was the fact that I would so quickly abandon my own life, betray my own self, disappear without a trace like that, just because I thought that my completely irrational reasons for doing so trumped all else.
