You cannot allow yourself to be consumed by the standards set by others or any misguided reaction to the knowledge that everyone’s journey is different.

The criticism of the rich is not rooted in people being successful enough to become wealthy, but a system that allows people to build massive fortunes based on exploitation—and using that power to consolidate power that prevents them from ever facing any consequences for such abuses.

didn’t know what to think about myself based on my own metrics, so it was ill-advised to measure myself by his.

It’s one thing to intellectualize it, but critical thinking and analysis don’t make you feel it. To feel it is to make you empathetic in ways you previously thought were implausible.

Knowing people aren’t being totally honest with what they are showing you doesn’t mean what they show you still can’t get to you.

The criticism of the rich is not rooted in people being successful enough to become wealthy, but a system that allows people to build massive fortunes based on exploitation—and using that power to consolidate power that prevents them from ever facing any consequences for such abuses.

get so tired. So very tired. I worry it may never end, no matter what I do. Sometimes, you worry so much and your fears and trauma trample so hard over you that you just don’t want to get up. You don’t know what to do anymore. Everything else you used to do no longer works. You don’t have the desire to try anything else. Then people pile their prob

It’s adorable to believe we live in a meritocracy, but so much of certain types of success is dictated by everything else besides perceived special talents and abilities. It’s about privilege, and how that privilege gives way to greater access and larger means than are offered those who lack it.

Knowing people aren’t being totally honest with what they are showing you doesn’t mean what they show you still can’t get to you.