“You know that thing you do sometimes when you’re sitting there having freshly received a validating piece of news, something like a promotion or a prestigious new freelance gig and people around you are chatting and this dark need overcomes you, a need for them to hear about this one accomplishment, one that grows so strong that you are inappropriately liberal with your definition of ‘related information’ when you abruptly insert this golden nugget of ego into the conversation, such that the conversation stops and then focuses for a millisecond on that pause, and questions follow, obviously now out of politeness rather than awe, which is something you so oddly wanted — the awe of other people, which I guess is endearing and blameless in the end, which is an okay thing to be. Still — embarrassing. That’s not just me — you do that, right?”

(Source: thoughtcatalog)