"My alarm goes off, and my brain instantly tries to solve 14 hours of problems before I've even opened my eyes."
The exhaustion in her voice was palpable.
“I’ll be 10 min late sorry!!!”
-ashamed
-fragile
-unreliable
“A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.”
-powerful
-commanding
-honest
Pattern Recognition is also the form of intelligence that causes the most stress.
You will see things that others do not.
You'll feel crazy.
Things will be *so obvious* to you, and others will just deny it.
this is corny but making a real friend all because you had the balls to start a conversation out of nothing is really cool and really does build confidence
I don’t like bringing it up because I don’t want to talk about it much. But there’s a heavy darkness here in America to the point where my neighbors, coworkers, people are opening up about things so dark and scary that I’m worried.
I want to be so deep inside my own life that the living of it requires my full attention. no room left for the scroll. no room left for the comparison. no room left for the noise. the full attention demanded by the thing worth dying for is the cure for every modern disease I have been diagnosed with. the attention deficit was never a deficit of attention. the attention deficit was a deficit of something worthy of my attention.
I’m going to be exuberantly delusional about my desires and if it doesn’t work out, I’ll deal with it when it happens/doesn’t happen. I’m tired of always preparing for the worse.
Better days are here.
It doesn't matter if it takes years.
What the fuck else are you going to do?
You aren't going to learn, create, experiment, grow, and everything that makes life enjoyable because you have something better to be doing?
Your mind is playing tricks on you.