It's Kind of a Funny Story

by Ned Vizzini

I don’t know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time. I’ll tell you how, soldier. It’s because you’re not ambitious. You’re just lazy.

Shoot. That’s right. Some of us have actual things to complain about.

So I tell Bobby: “I’m here because I suffer from serious depression.” “Me too.” He nods. “Since I was fifteen.” And his eyes shine with blackness and horror. We shake hands.

“As you go through life, you think of me and hope that I am better.”