"How Do I Stop Being Scared Of-" You Do It Scared. The Courage Arrives WITH The Action, Not Before It.

"How do I stop being scared of-" You do it scared. The courage arrives WITH the action, not before it. Don't wait to feel confident before you act because the key to confidence is usually doing the thing while still scared as fuck

there was no perfect path. you did not get punished. your life did not unravel when you made a left turn. the memory will always be there. you can visit whenever you want. there is no alternate timeline where you made a better choice and got a happier ending. you were a little girl chasing the ice cream truck, playing hopscotch, swinging and aiming for the never ending blue. yes, the grief was waiting up ahead. but so was the miracle of saturdays in a car headed wherever you wanted to go. enough sky to wrap around every wound. friends who, despite your perennial bouts of silence, kept an ear close at all times.

Everything that makes up my corporeal self is borrowed from the pieces of the universe around me, which makes death less of a “losing” something that was mine and more “returning” something I’ve been temporarily given, and likewise give to others in their own turn.

To be fair, everything in life can feel like a saw trap if you are anxious enough

me, getting behind the wheel of my car to drive to the grocery store to buy grocery store sushi: i can't believe john kramer would make me do this

they should invent a wanting that does not feel like youre being skinned alive with a dull knife

the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck