Status Updates From Faces in the Crowd

I think that when I was young I was weighed down by a constant sense of social inadequacy-I was never the most popular nor the most eloquent at a table never the best read nor the best writer; not the most successful nor the most talented, At the same time, I harbored the secret hope, or rather, the secret certainty that one day I would finally turn into myself; into the image of myself I’d been elaborating for years

Okay I haven’t been a big fan of this one, but this line made me laugh out loud: “Frederico was like a Narcissus who’d read Freud but, instead of being horrified, had been moved.”