if i could time travel, i’d tell the 20 year old version of myself to stop running away from my feelings. and that people pleasing wouldn’t save me. and that i deserve to be filled as i pour.
i’m telling myself these things today because i need the reminders. maybe you do, too.
take all that time you spend questioning yourself, and use it to explore yourself instead.
“what am i capable of?” is a more powerful question than “am i capable?”
if you take advice from too many people, you’ll end up with an impossibly long list of goals to pursue. you‘ll have no room to understand what you want for yourself, because you’ll be too busy trying to cram multiple lifetimes of expectations into the one life that belongs to you
“never quit” sounds great, but sometimes, you gotta quit. be willing to say, “this isn’t what i thought it was,” or “this doesn’t appeal to me anymore.” remember that you can quit “the thing” without quitting on yourself. remember that persistence and fluidity can coexist.