More Lamott on life and writing:
Though not one of her main points, at one point Lamott notes that “everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared.” While I think there is some hyperbole there, it is a fact that we all have issues, and also a fact that some folks hide those issues better than others. That leads Lamott to this admonition: “try not to compare your insides to other people’s outsides.” When I compare, that’s of course exactly what I do – I compare what I know to be truth about me to what I BELIEVE to be truth as to others. Putting it that way, it occurs to me that the risk in that comparison is, well, obvious.
It occurs to me... 