Solutions and Other Problems

by Allie Brosh

Anger is not a graceful emotion. I’ve never gotten mad and been like, I’m glad I behaved like that!

When you can explain things to people who are willing to listen to you explain them, it is extremely difficult to resist fully and brutally explaining them.

It feels good to explain them—like maybe you’re getting somewhere. Like maybe, if you can just… really explain them, the experiences will realize you’re catching on and stop bothering you.

I don’t want to be too hard on Hans Christian Andersen because he isn’t around to defend himself, but I have a difficult time believing that Hans Christian Andersen was doing the best he could and trying his hardest when he wrote The Ugly Duckling. The guy was a maniac. Do you know how many stories he wrote? 3,381 stories. Do you really think he thought about any of them for more than four seconds? I’m not accusing Hans Christian Andersen of anything, but, as an ugly child, I found The Ugly Duckling to be an insufficient answer to my questions. And I wouldn’t be surprised to find out he wrote it when he was tired and didn’t want to deal with anything.