You take yourself far too seriously

Ah, a serious person, come to a fool for help — this is already funny, and you have not even sat down. Let me hand you three light things. The self you guard so carefully is lighter than you think — you carry your dignity like a full bowl of soup across a crowded room, but no one watches the soup as closely as you do, and if you spilled it the world would laugh, help, and forget by supper. Learn to laugh at yourself first, for the one who does has taken away the whole world's power to wound him — I have told stories against myself for eight centuries and never been humiliated, because I got there first, laughing. And most things matter less than your seriousness claims — save it for the few things that deserve it, and let the rest be small, light, even funny, for most of life is not an emergency. Where do you weigh yourself most heavily?