Reminders for myself
isaiah taylor was 19 when he got married. he’s 25 now with 4 kids :)
let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
The Institute of Fourth Dimensional Thinking
thinkfourth.orgThe choices you make today will affect your Future Self tomorrow. In this way, you are a caregiver to them. They rely on you to help them thrive.
If you want to be loved, find something you love. People can sense it when you have something you’re dedicated to. No one wants the burden of being the answer to your dissatisfication. When you’re unsure of yourself, it’s easy to be obsessed with the idea of love—the idea that happiness will arrive when someone else loves you. This can lead to you ignoring your own life.
So: if the person you like likes you back, you can probably tell. If you’re not sure they like you, they’re almost certainly half-hearted or conflicted or lukewarm. And that’s fine! It is really, truly okay if someone is not very into you. The interesting question here is why you care so much : why do you need to obsess over it, why do you need to ... See more
Ava • how to avoid half-heartedness
I think digital scrolling induces a kind of blackout. Not in the way alcohol causes one, but in the sense that time disappears without anything worth remembering. There are days I can barely recall—not because they were traumatic, but because they were simply unmemorable. A digital fog. Hours passed without touching anything real. No texture. No de... See more