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It’s okay not to know exactly what you want to do next—or to want to do too many things at the same time. It’s okay not to have the one right answer—or to try many different answers to see which feels most right. It’s okay to end up in places you didn’t expect to get to—or to change your mind about the place you always thought you would want to go.
Richard J. Leider • Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities
amber. • the hunger to be everything.
Decisiveness
Victor Ngo • 1 card
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Matt Haig • The Midnight Library: A Novel
I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground
... See moreSylvia Plath • The Bell Jar: A Novel (Modern Classics)
Decisions
Moshe Weitzman • 2 cards
I was treading water, trying neither to drown nor to swim to safety, just staying in place, because here was the truth—even if I couldn’t speak the truth, or even hint at it, yet I could swear it lay around us, the way we say of a necklace we’ve just lost while swimming: I know it’s down there somewhere. If he knew, if he only knew that I was
... See moreAndré Aciman • Call Me by Your Name
Plath describes an adulthood spent hungry for different identities, but she’s stymied in an obsession with determining which next step would be best—as if there were a single right answer and as if she had only one chance to choose.