An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a car wreck he passed on the highway. I learned not to censor myself: that was one of things I learned in my apprenticeship, my creative-writing apprenticeship with my dad.