you’re not a burned-out gifted kid, you're an adult terrified of mediocrity, procrastinating at every opportunity so failure can't prove that you're just average
my coworker opened the calculator app on a company device, started typing in random numbers and symbols and then just started laughing hysterically for like 15 minutes straight. at one point he told me between laughs "believe or not i got an even higher number than this earlier"