"I don't know how to be myself around other people"

Oct. 6, 2014 | “Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James.” Rolling Stone, Sept. 2021.

Notes to Self are longer journal entries from Seven Yrs Ago. I was 21 late 2014.

Current problems:

• I don’t know how to be myself around other people—especially in groups/teams

• I don’t know how to be myself around even my own friends—so one-on-one too

• Part of me thinks I invent more problems for myself like writer’s block, how the hell can I make it as a screenwriter in the entertainment industry? Isn’t that the goddamn opposite? → Because then I’m not only fighting outside fate and forces. I’m fighting myself.

For commentary seven years later, go here.