What's in the Cards?
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What's in the Cards?
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
... See moreMichael Arceneaux • I Don't Want to Die Poor: Essays
“I am but paper. Brittle and thin. I am held up to the sun, and it shines right through me. I get written on, and I can never be used again. These scratches are a history. They’re a story. They tell things for others to read, but they only see the words, and not what the words are written upon. I am but paper, and though there are many like me, non
... See moreTJ Klune • The House in the Cerulean Sea
Rest in Peace David Foster Wallace, you would have loved Barbie. We swim in a wretched sea of meaningless mush, and when you have to trudge through nothing but slop all day, every day, it gets harder and harder to not numb out. I really cannot emphasize it enough: there’s so much and it just keeps coming. There’s lots to do. There’s lots to buy. Th... See more
Catherine Shannon • Everyone Is Numbing Out
What I write is all mine, it’s a living thing, it’s an extension of me that wanders out into the world. It is desire turned inwards instead of outwards, focused instead of displaced.
Ava • how to avoid half-heartedness
When you care about everything, you do nothing well, which then compels you to try even harder. Welcome to being tired.