8.29.01

you know what my problem is? i’m used to getting whatever i want. no, really. i mean, i work for it; i work really hard in fact. but that doesn’t change the fact that in the end, i’m not really used to dealing with disappointment. it’s the whole middle-american you can do/have/say/be anything if you just work for it trap. it leaves us always wanting more and interpreting disappointment as a sort of failure of our own. i’m spoiled, i guess.

(i’m reading Love in the Time of Cholera right now – it’s all about people not getting what they want)