Eric Diaz

deloitte | uiuc mas ‘22

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

God honors his favorites by crushing them, drops the whole insufferable wretched weight of purpose on their spines until they either snap into shape or snap entirely. the unburdened, those buoyant grinning vapid little phantoms drifting through their own lives without a single crushing thing to carry, they are forgotten

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“One of the most underrated skills you can learn is the ability to ignore your mood and stick with the plan.”

[Heem. @thghostly]

reading together?

[♰ 𝙽𝚊𝚎𝚝𝚘 @fw_naetoblaq]

how it feels as an adult to revisit the classic books and poems you were taught in class now with fresh eyes and life experience:

[Vader's Order @VadersOrder]

Return of the Jedi (1983)

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This sentence by Dostoyevsky hits so hard.

“You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.”

[Natism @his4Everz]

Quote for Fire Horse Year:

"To be happy you must elimate two things: the fear of a bad future and the memory of a bad past."
- Seneca

[Darth Thunder ⚡ @XDarthThunderX]

"Anakin Skywalker was weak. I destroyed him".

[CineVow @cinevow]

Christian Bale in The Dark Knight, 2008

[The Money Cruncher, CPA @money_cruncher]

Amazon laid off 18,000 people yet their net income is up 38% YoY.

This is a good reminder that there is no corporate loyalty. They don't care about you.

Make your money, build an emergency fund, invest the cash and move on.

[blue @bluewmist]

literally obsessed with people who teach themselves things or invest in random classes. LEARNING IS HOT!!!! take a french cooking class. beginners sewing. adult gymnastics. doing things out of the SPICE of curiosity is HOT!!!!!

[Leo @SpartanPsyche]

The brain hates open loops. Unfinished tasks keep resurfacing because prospective memory is unreliable. The cure is simple: write it down, decide the outcome, define the next action, and park it where you'll review it.

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

ever meet someone so incredible that you don't chase them, you just start fixing your life? like, hold on. let me heal a bit. Clean up my old habits, get my mind right.

not because you want to impress them, but because they deserve a version of you you're still building.

sometimes the right person doesn't make you run after them. they make you grow.

[Nightbloom @Nightbloomc]

"Loving you was the clearest reality I ever found in a blurry world."

[Vader's Order @VadersOrder]

"Anakin is gone. I am what remains."

[Marcel @345marcel]

U can grow more muscles just from being more mindful in the gym. Not more volume, another exercise... but by noticing the details. Mind and body. Deeper breaths to move heavier weight, rituals when setting urself up, visualizing the reps. Positive self talk and hyping urself up.