offered an old lady my seat on the metro, but she just smiled, patted my arm and told me to sit down
then when offered, she proceeded to take a man's seat
everytime my family starts joking about getting me married i start joking about the husband mysteriously disappearing, they are slowly realising i might not be joking
the thing is, to make art, to fall in love, to do anything really worth doing, you have to risk embarrassment, humiliation, heartbreak. to do anything you have to risk being. and that's being in front of—or more scary, with—others.