It's Kind of a Funny Story

Who hasn’t thought about kil ing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it? It’s an option taken by a lot of successful people: Ernest Hemingway, Socrates, Jesus. Even before high school, I thought that it would be a cool thing to do if I ever got real y famous

One of his hands was hidden, exploring magical beige places.

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friends.
I
mean,
they’re important—
everybody knows that; the TV tel s you so—but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another. Al you have to do is talk to people, and this was back when I could talk to anybody. My friends, when I had them, pretty much just ragged on me and took my seat when I left the room anyway. Why did I need to cal them up?

Of course I wasn’t abused. If I were, things would be so simple. I’d have a reason for being in shrinks’offices. I’d have a justification and something that I could work on. The world wasn’t going to give me something that tidy.

homeless-ness. If you can’t get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away.

and I’m more than two thirds adult and I’m pretty disrespectful, so what the hel .

Big eyebrows that meet in the middle. A long nose, sort of twisted. Pupils that are natural y large—it’s not the pot— which blend into the dark brown to make two big saucer eyes, holes in me.

erson’s relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.

It’s so hard to talk when you want to kil yourself.

My family shouldn’t have to put up with me. They’re good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I’m with them I think I’m on television.