Sparrowrose wrote:
The whole "laugh at the losers" thing is so much not a motivation for me because while all my classmates were becoming doctors and lawyers (and I see their names all the time in the hometown paper) I was spending a good fifteen years in and out of homelessness and on disability so *I'm* the loser everyone would be laughing at.
This too, really. For every chick who wanted to be an actress but settled for getting married there's someone else who's a big (for our town) success now and I'm going to get a lot of simpering glances and "Hey, isn't that the cancer chick?" whispers.
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