After years of floundering, I think I'm finally getting it: You get energy by spending it. The fuel tank metaphor is completely misleading. The body supplies energy to meet demand. The tank *expands* if you use a lot of fuel. In other words, biology is fundamentally antifragile
Wandering—i.e., embarking upon a walk or journey with no particular destination—is good for the soul, and by extension society, and we should all prioritize more of it. Empirical support: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9169417/
when someone tells me to keep writing, it feels like a command to keep living.
Do as Mister Rogers says and look for the helpers: organizers, the kind cashier at Trader Joe’s who seems to genuinely mean it when they ask “how are you?”, teachers, your therapist, dear friends, the garbage truck driver who, without fail, will honk extra when he notices your daughter watching him with total glee as he collects... See more