Solutions and Other Problems

by Allie Brosh

That’s the scary thing about decisions: you don’t know what they are when you’re making them.

If you keep going, you’ll eventually realize that the one true answer to all your questions is: Of course it doesn’t make sense—what business do you have expecting things to make sense?

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.

Sometimes all you can really do is keep moving and hope you end up somewhere that makes sense.

That was really hard, which is amazing when you consider how much you didn’t need to do it.

Why is the person who does that somebody’s best friend? Because that’s intimacy, Buckaroos. Somebody who understands exactly how weird you are, and you understand exactly how weird they are, and you’re in a sort of mutually beneficial hostage situation.