Vocable

point out the good
when you see it.

in life,
in others,
in yourself.

because the world
needs to remember
what kindness and
love look like.

– topher kearby

Most self-help stuff can be mulched into some version of “Calm the fuck down, keep moving, and have good goals“

John Carlton

I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am.

- Charles Horton Cooley

early internet writing: pandora’s vox: on community in cyberspace by humdog (1994)

when i went into cyberspace i went into it thinking that it was a place like any other place and that it would be a human interaction like any other human interaction. i was wrong when i thought that. it was a terrible mistake.

the very first understanding that i had

“Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that's why life is hard.”

— Jeremy Goldberg

The point is not to try harder; it's to resist life less.