messy in public

‎"My story is important not because it is mine...but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours. Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I,of these stories of who we are and where we have come from and the people we have met along the way because it is precisely through these stories, in all their particularity...that God makes himself known to each of us most powerfully and personally."
-Frederick Buechner

Don't you ever wish sometimes that you could just be completely messy in public? Just let it all hang out there? Just walk around with your mess smeared around and your smile lopsided and your eyes halfway closed - that people could take one look at you and realize that your life really isn't so perfect and you really aren't all that happy and the smile you usually wear is actually a Jane Jetson mask you pull out of your @ss every morning?

That's how I feel today.