“I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.”
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The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.