trying to live without regret

You must go. You must leave your state of potential behind. You must go somewhere over the rainbow. Dreaming about it from “Kansas” feels good, but the drug of potential isn’t good for you.

I LIKE LOS ANGELES. It is pretty and sad. It is sad because it is filled with people who were once told they had so much potential. And because the weather is pleasant, they stayed in that state of potential forever and one day woke up and they weren’t twenty anymore—nor thirty, nor forty, nor fifty. It is a city of people high on potential where... See more

A common anecdote used by manifestation junkies: that the brain is “unable” to detect memory from imagination.