The talking and sharing of the things we love feels like something unmissable. It makes me sit up a little straighter
I have a lot of female friends. It was not always like this, but somewhere between having very few female friends in my early 20s and my now late 30s, I started to furiously seek out the company of other women. That I came late to it is only indicative of my own insecurities; women it seemed to me were reflective surfaces mirroring my own failings – all their talents and glories diminishing my own, but now that I more or less like myself I am able to embrace all the excellent women I know. Sometimes I catch myself in the amazement that I should have the good luck to be surrounded by so many excellent women.
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