Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.
I really lucked out in terms of how my parents encouraged me to develop my own personality so I didn't just feel incredibly insecure and like I didn't fit in.
When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.
You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.
I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.
Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.
I was mid-sentence when the casting director said, "Listen, kid. You should not be an actress. You are not pretty enough. You should go back to wherever you came from and you should go to school. You don't have it. " She was very blunt - I honestly think that she thought she was doing me a favor.
A lot of the times I'm looking at something that I discover is part of a larger framework and not just a couple jokes. I see that it's a set, a story that I'll be telling. Sometimes I get lost in that.
I swear he's just so freaking smoldering, you have to see him. " She shakes her head, annoyed that I can't join in on the fun. "He's like combustible!
I didn't understand, either, but love had no sense sometimes. Pondering the why of it was futile.
An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.