self/healing

The sad fact is that if someone doesn’t readily recognize my worth, there’s a good chance that they’re simply not willing to, no matter how much convincing I do. Or even if I do manage to convince them that I’m worthy, the validation that I earn feels hollow, because I know it’s conditional on me being a certain way. Either way, there isn’t room... See more

“My deepest insecurity is that I have these intuitions about things that I cannot explain to anyone,” Kushner told Rubin as they sat in his garden overlooking the ocean. “Sometimes I see or experience something and it makes sense to me, I fall in love, but I cannot explain why. Like when Thrive invested in Instagram or Spotify or OpenAI. I could... See more

because the world saw me exuding the desire externally that I once held internally, it was now giving me what I wanted without my request

Disappointing people is practically a rite of passage in creating a life that is yours , rather than one your parents, family, friends or even a younger, more conditioned version of yourself might have imagined for you. Disappointing people is not something you should aim at, but something to accept as a potential side effect of honouring yourself.... See more