Probably the strangest thing that ever happened to me on twitter was when I had this sort of contemplative moment and didn’t make a joke but just said what I was thinking, which was this:

All my worst problems started out as solutions.

And that was sort of that.

I was a favstar guy back then and I knew it wouldn’t get too many stars but it got a few and I believe it was sort of later in the evening when I tweeted it so I pretty much just went to bed after I had tweeted it.

When I woke up in the morning, I checked twitter and my @ replies were total madness.

I had hundreds and hundreds of replies.

Some people said, THAT’S WISDOM! I WISH I SAW THINGS THE WAY YOU SEE THEM! And some people said, THAT’S PATHETIC! I HOPE I NEVER BECOME LIKE YOU!

And many many people said much more complicated subtle things that reflected just an enormous variety of ways you could read that tweet.

And I just sat in my bed with my jaw on the floor reading through all those wildly different fascinating responses.

And I was weirdly moved and humbled by them. There were people insulting me and people thanking me, it was all just fucking crazy.

But mostly I just felt completely bewildered by the fact that so so many fucking people were responding to my tweet.

So after reading through them I finally got to why there had been so many responses.

About 35 minutes after I tweeted my tweet, the PostSecret twitter account had retweeted it and my god do they have some intense followers. I don’t know if seeing all those responses made the world feel bigger or smaller, but it definitely made the world feel different—and really really diverse.