The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
We're all of us haunted and haunting.
For the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.
Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.
I am Joe's Enraged, Inflamed, sense of rejection.
To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.