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.

“You

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?