Thin Slices of Anxiety
Anxiety is not a sign of sickness, a weakness of the mind, or an error for which we should always seek a medical solution. It is mostly a hugely reasonable and sensitive response to the genuine strangeness, terror, uncertainty, and riskiness of existence
Alain de Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education: An Emotional Education
3 Ways to Make the Most of Uncertain Times
Losing a job, taking on a new challenge, preparing to launch a project, moving to a new country – these transitions create what anthropologists call “liminal spaces” – the fertile but uncomfortable in-betweens where transformation happens.
Liminality (from the Latin word līmen, “threshold”) is the ambiguity
... See moreThere will always be problems. This is life.
There are fears inside still. Sometimes, you can’t put your finger on it until you sit still and peel away some other, more obvious fears. I don’t consciously choose not to feel fear. I don’t believe that will ever happen. You feel what you feel, but you can choose how to react.
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There are fears inside still. Sometimes, you can’t put your finger on it until you sit still and peel away some other, more obvious fears. I don’t consciously choose not to feel fear. I don’t believe that will ever happen. You feel what you feel, but you can choose how to react.
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Just in Case
On a week like this, I find myself oscillating between two strategies: staring directly at the crisis, and seeking temporary and necessary reprieve from it.
Anne Helen Petersen • "Taste Hierarchies Like These Stink"
this is the version of me that forgets to listen to music. who overthinks texts for so long that i never send them. who fills silence with noise just to avoid sitting with my own thoughts. and it always starts the same way: i tell myself i’m “just in a weird phase,” and i try to push through. but the pushing makes it worse. the pushing makes me... See more