Forgotten Note

As found on a scrap of paper:

What happens in this life is up to us. As Sartre once said, "Existence precedes Essence" - we are who we choose to be. Of course, it would be nice to be something other than a bum.

Truly, people act like they like me, but I know that their actions speak otherwise. It is not my fault that they feel this way, however, it is my choice to continue to associate with them (and, for that matter, to seek out the company of those who

[it ends there]

I think I was going to talk a little bit more about associating with people who just don't care about me. Who knows?