I Love Apricots

One of the great things about getting older is that you figure out who you are and what you like and don't like. It involves the occasional hit to one's vanity, as it did for me when a friend shot back at me once "you're such a worrier." It hurt but I new instantly he was right. The worrying became less of a problem after that.

The first thing I ask in such instances is whether it's circumstantial or constitutional. Sometimes you don't know. The worrying for me is circumstantial but so old and deep it's effectively constitutional. Whatever the case it's reassuring when you acknowledge the truth of something. 

There's good and there's bad but not so much perversity and inauthenticity.

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