Status Updates From Pack My Bag: A Self-Portrait

All through my life I have been plagued by enjoying first experiences too much, and that is true also of my first experiences of new people. How wonderful they seem the first few times, how clever, how beautiful, how right; how nice one seems to them because so interested, how well it all goes and then how dull it becomes and flat.

Most people remember very little of when they were small and what small part of this time there is that stays is coloured it is only fair to say, coloured and readjusted until the picture which was there, what does come back, has been over-painted and retouched enough to make it an unreliable account of what used to be.