Channing Moore
@sweettea
Channing Moore
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11h ago
Listen I know it’s not the same thing, but I empathize with the holding of two incompatible truths and believing them both.
1.My dad is an addict who will never change. He was drunk most of my childhood, probably drove with me in the car drunk, has embarrassed me, and has been an enormous source of anxiety for me. My dad is an alcoholic... See more
11h ago
Listen I know it’s not the same thing, but I empathize with the holding of two incompatible truths and believing them both.
1.My dad is an addict who will never change. He was drunk most of my childhood, probably drove with me in the car drunk, has embarrassed me, and has been an enormous source of anxiety for me. My dad is an alcoholic... See more
r/popculturechat - Reddit
i recognize that i like for things to be black in white because it’s easier to operate from a logical space, but sometimes truth is contradictory, but still true. emotions are not logical and that’s a discomfort i have to learn to sit in
new beginnings require discipline, but discipline is not always meant to be rigorous or inflammatory. discipline can be gentle, at least to start, and for most that gentle path may be the one that leads them to success.
“Powerful combination = Hate being bad at stuff + Willing to look like a beginner.
People who hate being bad at stuff are driven to improve. However, if they are unwilling to look like a beginner from time to time, they will avoid new challenges and struggle to reinvent themselves.
Meanwhile, people who are willing to try new things, but lack a... See more
People who hate being bad at stuff are driven to improve. However, if they are unwilling to look like a beginner from time to time, they will avoid new challenges and struggle to reinvent themselves.
Meanwhile, people who are willing to try new things, but lack a... See more
James Clear • 3-2-1: How to Divide Your to-Do List, and the Universal Nature of Writing - James Clear
what is so terrible about embarrassment? we’ve built it up to be this dragon of a thing, but in reality it’s purely subjective and only serves to prevent you from moving forward. allow yourself to flail
“the spirit of the fool.” He argued that when you start learning anything new it will make you “feel clumsy, that you’ll take literal or figurative pratfalls. There’s no way around it.”
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
starting anew sometimes feels like being a child which feels embarrassing, but embarrassment is just another obstacle in the way of growth. Be a mermaid gaining legs for the first time because eventually you’ll run.
The world, I realized, is built on passive connection, on the low-effort maintenance of relationships through shared content, mutual voyeurism, and the occasional emoji reaction. Without that, you become a ghost, haunting the edges of people’s lives but never quite materializing.
The Elegance of Digital Disappearance
Because to not be online is to accept that you will be forgotten. This is the great, unspoken truth of our age. If you do not post, you do not exist. If you are not constantly reinforcing your presence, your relevance, your desirability, then you are slipping, shrinking, becoming unimportant. It is not enough to simply be anymore, you must be... See more