It’s like a line in the sand, a shifting post that refuses to be marked down. So why do we try so hard to form identities and label ourselves, in efforts of solidifying something that was always meant to be fluid and ever-changing?
For those pushing the agenda on finding your “sense of self”, isn’t your “self” just a culmination of everything you have ever experienced / read / learnt, either subconsciously or not?
I’ve resigned to the dubious opinion that it is in my nature to live life unconventionally, though it takes so much out of me just to be comfortable with that.
“Take your passing brainwaves with a grain of salt. You are not your thoughts - you are the mysterious ‘something’ that witnesses them.” - Rhiana Jay for Frankie Magazine (Feel Good Vol. 1)
Be a good gatekeeper of the content you consume, and rather than going out & seeking inspiration, to simply follow your innate curiosity and see where that leads.
Maybe all you need is just some little wins along the path of the grand scheme comprising of all that is you’re striving to achieve, just a silver of hope to help you keep the lights on a little longer.
Maybe it’s ok to just be objectively bad at something (especially at the starting point) to make way for some explosive, seemingly out of the blue exponential growth that might caught you way off surprise further down the road
“ It is about a search, too, for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.” - Studs Terkel on his book, Working
“I tell myself that I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to.” - Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed.
What’s unique about writing is that nouns, when harmonized with the unlikeliest of adjectives, gives a whole new level of depth to its meaning like never before.