Emotions

honesty is not sharing every emotion that you feel and every thought that crosses your mind.

When you conceal important information about your internal state, you rob the other person of agency

solitude—true presence, is not the death of meaning. It is the birthplace of it.

And the truth is, nothing you’re chasing will hold you. Not the success. Not the admiration. Not even the healing. Because the moment you are finally still, you will hear it—your own precious life, sobbing in the corner, pleading:

I’ve been waiting for you to stop trying to be extraordinary, to stop trying to be ‘them’, all so I can love you as you... See more

They said choice would taste like freedom, but not that it’s an addictive sweetness. One that rots the stomach, until even our gut-instincts lose their sense of direction. We do not just suffer from an abundance of options, we suffer from a lack of commitment.

I am a thousand almosts, held together by hesitation; a gallery of repainted selves.

“I wake up every morning. I open my eyes and think: here we go again.”

power always lives in fear of not being powerful.