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most of the time i think i am too intense, i care too much, i feel too much, i worry too much, i expect too much, i get too attached too quickly, etc., etc. ... and then i detach myself completely because i think cutting myself off from everything will solve my "too" problem.

but then i read this:

"I found myself a good therapist: a soft-spoken man so largehaearted and inimitably wry that my initial fondness for him soon grew to include trust.  He was a Jewish kid from Brooklyn who quote to me from Baudelaire and the Song of Solomon; he laughed at my jokes, but he didn't laugh when I was being a wiseass to hide my pain. When I wept and told him [the therapist] I was afraid I was too intense, too much, he interrupted my tears and said,
'If someone came down from above and told me I could keep only one thing about you, it would be your too-muchness.'"*

which makes me think, if only for an instant, that maybe my "too" problem isn't much of a problem at all. 

now watch this video and laugh:

HAPPY FRIDAY!

*from Let's Take the Long Way Home by Gail Caldwell.