becoming honest & unafraid of my thoughts

Currently in a reading-everything-David-Sedaris-has-ever-written phase. Midway through a book of diary entries from his 20s. Why are the mundane events of someone else’s life so interesting? My eyes are opening to the many things I could write about that I previously thought to be unremarkable.

In the book, David speaks of a woman who wrote a book of advice called ‘If You Want to Write’, where she mentions the importance of keeping a diary. “It was valuable, she said, because after a while you’d stop being forced and pretentious and become honest and unafraid of your thoughts.”

I feel that.

Really wish I’d recorded my experiences up until now. I’ve done so many interesting things that I largely don’t remember the finer details of. Instead, I just wrote walls of rambling words about how confused I was.

Maybe that’s why I stayed confused for so long?

Theft by Finding by David Sedaris | Elliott Bay Book Company

One of the most anticipated books of 2017: Boston Globe, New York Times Book Review, New York’s “Vulture”, The Week, Bustle, BookRiotAn NPR Best Book of 2017An AV Club Favorite Book of 2017A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2017A Goodreads Choice Awards nomineeDavid Sedaris tells all in a book that is, literally, a lifetime in the making.

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