knowing vs. doing

How much more? How many more quotes do we need to feel okay? How much more advice before we finally change? How many poems that almost explain us? How many more rules about how to be human? Eventually, you do find something that says exactly what you’ve been feeling. For a moment, It almost feels like enough. And then… you just keep scrolling. Looking for the next one that hits harder. We say it’s helping. We forget most of it. We’re addicted. Addicted to the feeling of almost understanding ourselves. We want to explain every human experience, every feeling, and put it into words—until there’s nothing left we don’t understand. But words don’t change us. They comfort us. They hold the feeling for us, so we don’t have to. And at some point, we’ve read enough. We’ve had enough advice, enough answers. We’ve spent more time learning how to live than actually living. — Written by @momentary_existentialism 🎨 Illustrations by @david.pogran