...things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon.
We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.
I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.
It is true, I thought. I am living a life.
You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.
Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.