That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.
Because you're only thinking they-might-not-like-me-they-might-not-like-me, and guess what? When you act like that, no one likes you.
Boys do not have the monopoly in Staring Business, after all.
When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.
So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost
What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.