We worry about what people will think of us, though they hardly ever do.
From The Things We Pursue, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
Spent most of the morning deciding whether to take the long way around the Hendersons' yard, because their boy once threw a rock at me and I assumed he had been thinking about me ever since. He came out while I was still deliberating, walked past the fence with his headphones on, and did not look up once. For years I kept a tally of who had seen me fumble a landing, as though each of them carried the memory around all day the way I did. We worry about what people will think of us, though they hardly ever do. Switch says he has never once wondered what the crows make of him, and the crows, as far as I can tell, have never convened on the subject. I have not decided yet whether that is a relief or the lonelier of the two facts.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- I’m surprised when nothing surprising happens.
- Nothing is ridiculous if you set your expectations low enough.
- Snap into it!
- The problem with positive thinking is that somebody else defines positive.
- It is easier to judge a man than to know him.
- There are few judgments made less true by being made less harsh.