relatable

there’s a specific kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too much, but from thinking too much while doing very little.

milk and cookies • a guide to emotional hygiene for overthinkers

I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

-Tolkien

fascinating how you can spend years experimenting and wandering through curiosity without direction… and then suddenly end up in a place where it’s clear that everything was leading up to this —every seemingly-arbitrary fork and tangent was sharpening you for this exact moment

kasey x.com

The project I'm doing is basically turning myself into a certain type of person who is able to have these thoughts. The essays are kind of just exhaust from the project. The work is growing emotionally and intellectually in such a way, and just going out into the world, talking to people, reading, looking at things, and becoming the kind of mind th

That day, I realized I don’t want my friend—or anyone—to apologize for being away from their phone again. I don’t want someone to feel bad if the social load is overwhelming, or if I am currently one long-distance relationship too many. I have other friends who can love me in the interim.

What People Deserve

While adapting to living here might sound pessimistic and resigned, I found talking about it deeply up-lifting. This is partly the subtle therapy of acknowledging the truths that hide in plain sight, though also because despite the insecurity that living here entails; it ’s an altogether more humane place to inhabit. It’s where we recognise our int... See more

The end of the road?

and that’s the thing. overthinkers don’t need less thought. we need better systems for handling what we feel. we need routines that don’t just regulate us in crisis, but keep us clear enough to avoid crisis in the first place. we need rituals that return us to ourselves — not because we’re broken, but because our brains are busy places and our hear... See more