#difficult practice

At some point in my childhood, I remember mentioning something I’d read in a book – which I had, but since I was four, I didn’t realise this was gauche. It was immediately rebuked as ‘not interesting,’ because ‘I just read it in a book.’ Then I spent my entire life trying to hide the fact I read books. Telling people about stuff you’ve read, ideas you’ve heard, concepts you accumulated, life…