Friendly Advice Tip #6

If today were a movie, you wouldn’t be the star. Despite what you may believe. Everyone else out there is starring in their own epic drama in which you are merely an extra. So lighten up. Everyone is not talking about you. No one really cares what music you’re playing in your car, or what movie you check out at the indie video store, or what CD you buy at the hip record shop (and I’ve worked at both—it’s true). And if anyone does care that you’re wearing last year’s boots, or reading a Faulkner novel when everyone else is reading Joyce, then those people are vapid, boring, self-conscious losers who probably have nothing better to do with their time than to sit around and criticize strangers. You know, people like you.