I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.

It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.

Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.

I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.

Nothing wrong with making money.

Roads taken far away from you are many. Do not fear, Mother; they all lead back.