"As long as I can remember, I had this bright-eyed notion that I had something important to say and that someday somehow people would listen to me.
Now I'm talking. And you're listening.
so.
um.
well.
uh.
Now that I've turned the spotlight on myself, I'm scared. what if I don't have anything of importance to say, after all? Or what if I say it, and you think I'm a complete, self-absorbed, obnoxious idiot?
(...what if you're right?)"