I don’t really worry about getting addicted to things but once I read a story about a man who went to Nepal & started walking & then just never stopped walking & at the time of the interview he was one & a half years into his walk & had completely abandoned his life back home.

IN CONSTRUCTION Human beings are only healthy when they are still in construction (intellectually). Aging starts when they become a self-museum.

Part of emotional regulation is also noticing when dysregulation is the natural response to a given situation and changing the situation.

you can afford to fuck up so much if you get the important bits correct

One of my biggest takeaways from practicing radical honesty for a while was exactly this. Many things are true. We have no choice but to select which truths we are going to share in which contexts, and why. Discernment has to improve alongside self-awareness.

people think they're bad at doing things, when often they're bad at wanting things

Writing is the act of locating ourselves. (Or maybe that’s just what writing is to me. But I’ve been thinking about it all summer and that’s the most concise way I can put it.)

Sure idealizing people is fun but have you tried staying present with the entirety of who someone is and watched your love for them steadily deepen as they come ever more clearly into view?