““When you look at someone on a bus who is sobbing or even just sitting there dejectedly, you see them differently than you would see someone who is productively crocheting away. Knowing this about yourself can make you feel more competent and sane just by virtue of the fact that you’ve armed yourself with your crochet and know that at least to the outside world you don’t look like a lunatic who is about to freak out because there are too many people on the bus and what if the bus doesn’t stop where it’s supposed to and how are you going to talk to the people at the event that you’re taking the bus to in the first place. All of that craziness may still be happening in your mind but to the casual observer you look like someone who is just crocheting something on a bus.””
