I'd say I try to be a happy person.

July 30, 2014
Describe Yourself, pt. 2

“I’d say I’m a . . . thoughtful person.”

Which means I think a lot about all kinds of things but especially about myself, which is depressing really, you know, because I’m not always a happy person.  I mean, I try to be; but mostly it’s try and fail.  I don’t know why.  I think it’s in my stars.

That is, another letter from cousin Jack (About Jack, see here.), July 28, 1992.  The letter, one of those you wrote when you were thirty (overly dramatic and . . . honest) and wish no one had kept, is here.