People don't talk to each other about real things because they're afraid of how they'll be judged. Or they think that other people don't have the capacity to carry the burden of what they have to say. They see the compulsion to put that burden out in the world as a show of weakness. But all that stuff makes us humnan; more than that, it's what makes being human interesting and funny. How we got away from that, I don't know. But fuck that: we're all built to deal with shit. We're built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It's what seperates us from animals and why we envy and love animals so much. We're aware of it all and have to process it. The way we each handle being human is where all the good stories, jokes, art, wisdom, revelations, and bullshit come from.

Attempting Normal by Marc Maron