Day 0280

Lovely day in London with friends from university, all impressive, happy people whom I realise now I admire much more than I ever admitted to myself. Very easy to take richly and diversely talented people for granted when surrounded by them all the time; now I spend most of the time on my own it is a tonic to see them again. Also I find it very easy to unconsciously minimize other people's successes and talents when they're not consonant with my own, protecting myself from feeling inferior by not caring about the things they're good at. Occasionally I have the clarity to see beyond my own ego and see people in their best light, which is often dazzling.