I’ve been reading this great book by Anne Lamont, Bird By Bird: Some Instructions On Writing And Life. I’ve written about it a little bit at JohnLacey.com.

I just wanted to share this passage from the chapter on jealousy. I concede I’ve been feeling a bit jealous of certain people who shall remain nameless lately, and the chapter was very helpful. This passage in particular made me LMAO (as we say in Internet acronym-speak).

Next I talked to my slightly overweight alcoholic gay Catholic priest friend. I said, “Do you get jealous?”

He said, “When I see a man my own age in great shape, and I feel all conflicted, wishing I were that thin and yet at the same time wanting to lick him, is that jealousy or is that appreciation?”

And I think there’s something in that for all of us.