When we can begin to take our failure non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses. I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming. The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. |