Monday, August 01, 2005

self-inhibitation and exaggeration

"If confusion about your [...] life is ruining your day, I think it's good to go over to your best friend's house and ruin her day too. "
-L.A. Story


my life is spent in a place
where I put on a happy face
keep up appearances and go through the motions
until things spill out in ugly emotion
which brings great alarm
and much harm
to my relationships

the trouble is I don't see
what's inside or around me

until I am already in the thick of it.


"I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it, because I was so happy all the time. "
-L.A. Story

*Ask anyone, they will tell you that my life is this quote turned inside out. An intellectual understanding of this does little to slow my natural laughing pessimism.*

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