never build your identity around being the one who understands everyone. some people are not confused, they are incentivised. some people are not wounded, they are opportunistic. compassion without discernment turns you into a luxury service for people avoiding accountability.
wife has been walking around our apartment mumbling "a face... a fleet... a war... a man... a thought... a trick... a trick to break the walls of Troy..." to herself
My least favorite thing about dating as a GenZ is the fear that comes w being honest about how much you want someone. It is especially exhausting for me bc when it comes to romance, I have no desire to perform nonchalance. I just want to honor my love needs. I hate these games.
George Orwell worried that a shrinking vocabulary would eventually produce a shrinking range of thought.
It is difficult to think a nuanced thought with a blunt language.
Ever since I became a Mbappé fan it’s just been one painful moment after another. I think it’s time for me to take a step back and focus on my own life until everything falls back into place
you must believe you are special and then go so hard, for so long, with such violent refusal to accept any other ending, that reality itself starts running out of ways to tell you no. you must wage a war daily against the ordinary outcome, until the belief you invented out of nothing in a room by yourself has been hammered into the world so many times that it stops being a claim and becomes reality.