Swallow Your Pride To Lose Your Fear

Put yourself out there. You never feel quite as alive as when you're dying of embarrassment.

Don't Make Their Problem Yours

There are people you will never win with, no matter how much you cater to their every demand. Don't take it personally. Don't waste your time on them. You've got better things to do than to figure out their problem.

Love Is Not So Logical

I used to think that falling in love was highly dependent on the way the other person interacted with you. It turns out that having a powerful imagination can suffice. You fall in love based on the way you see a person — the way you believe or imagine that person to be. One can argue how much of that person you're actually in love with based on how much you truly know about them, but romantic love is not so sensible an experience that it can't be achieved without reciprocity and all the facts.

We May Not See Each Other Again

I just had a very vivid dream of attending a reunion at my middle school and woke up to the sad truth that I may never see most of the people I used to spend most of my days with again. 

There Will Be Mountains You Can't Summit

I've been the "if I really want it, I'll just go get it" type for most of my life now. I haven't seen anything I've wanted badly enough as out of reach for YEARS, but I'm finally relearning the truth in this; some things are truly beyond my grasp. Now I just need to work on stomaching it.

You Can't Be Each Other's Everything

No one can be anyone's everything forever.

Clickbait: "Men are very weak" — An Atypical Take

"Men are very weak" is inappropriate and inaccurate clickbait, and this is flawed, but other aspects of this take, such as the assertion that "an abuse of power is really just a display of weakness", make this short piece worthy of scrutiny:

https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/arts-entertainment/billie-eilish-says-men-very-weak?eid=f3e0ee4d6f2e51f067024759e7666dd8&utm_source=InsideHook&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nation

In Love with an Idea of a Man

❤ "You're in love with him."
🧠 "I'm in love with my brain's version of him."
💡"That's what being in love is."