relatable

There’s a phrase making the rounds online: “The more I heal, the less ambitious I become.” I’ve been wondering if its resonance reveals a quiet fatigue with the constant push for more and a longing for lives that are simpler, quieter, and more self-directed. Not smaller in value, but in volume. To me, that’s not regression. That’s freedom.

In Defense of Thinking Small

And I do not want more doors—I want to walk through one without looking back. I want to love something long enough to feel it love me in return. I want to lay foundations on imperfect soil and call it home anyway.

But I have lost myself in a million other people. I’m no longer fluent in my own language. I’ve consumed so many dreams that weren’t... See more

amber. • the hunger to be everything.

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