a coward who paints a bullshit canvas
i want people to smile back at me;

illinoisey:

Most of the people in Europe just stare back at me oddly.

I had this problem, too, when I was in Paris.  I’m so used to smiling and nodding at people as we pass in the street (or, at work, in the hallways) that I thought I’d done something wrong when people weren’t smiling back.