Everything Comes Clean (2002)

Oh, was I ever having one of those days. I had just done something really hard... you know the kind of thing where it's clear as a bell you're going to have to do something you know someone else isn't going to like, and they're going to be pissed at you, which seems entirely unfair when the only person who is even less pleased about what you have to do than they are is you. Or maybe this only happens to me. Anyway, it was kind of a throwing myself on my own sword moment. But I have learned of late that a great way to combat the dread that somebody is going to really think you suck is to remind yourself, "hey, wait... I do kinda suck!" I mean, maybe there's a risk of me being misunderstood and unfairly judged in the particular situation I'm perseverating on at the moment, but it's not like many of those same judgments couldn't be applied to me perfectly appropriately at one time or another in the span of my life. Or others that are equally grave. This line of thought always seems to have a strangely cheering effect on me, and by the second verse my truck and I were in a much better mood and decided to take a little drive to see what kind of mischief we could get into...