Mimi is brilliant

And spouse got me her book for Valentine’s Day, all the way from Switzerland. From Mimi Smartypants’s latest entry:

I used to wonder when I would ever become a grown-up, which I thought meant something like “becoming fully yourself.” As if that is ever done. A self is not a chalked body outline that you lie down in. It’s more like writing letters back and forth, arguing with a friend and gradually changing your opinion with each new round of beers, or keeping an online journal in which all that posturing and constructing of personas slowly starts to change into a great big neon-flashing OH FUCK IT and a “Hi honey I’m home” to the world at large.