Almost everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, scared, and yet designed for joy.
Even (or especially) people who seem to have it more or less together are more like the rest of us than you would believe.
I try not to compare my insides to their outsides, because this makes me much worse than I already am, and if I get to know them, they turn out to have plenty of irritability and shadow of their own.
Besides, those few people who aren’t a mess are probably good for about twenty minutes of dinner conversation.
This is good news, that almost everyone is petty, narcissistic, secretly insecure,
and in it for themselves, because a few of the funny ones may actually long to be friends with you and me.
They can be real with us, the greatest relief.
As we develop love, appreciation, and forgiveness for others over time, we may accidentally develop those things toward ourselves, too.
⁃ Anne Lamott, Almost Everything
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