Category: People
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Be yourself — not to please others, but to exist.
This year I really got back into writing, and I take a lot of notes on my phone — sometimes written, sometimes voice notes. But I made it a rule to listen to them or read them again — to go back to them. To revisit what I wrote, how I felt, what I said…
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Bring our idealizations down and Accept our disappointments.
In order to heal, we have to bring our idealizations down and accept our disappointments. Here I am on the plane, coming back from my first vacation alone with the kids. I don’t really know how I feel, but I do know that for days now I’ve wanted to write and couldn’t quite find the…
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I got bored, of the idea I built of you
But saying it like that feels too personal. And I realized that, in truth, you didn’t bore me—because I don’t really know you that well, and I have no right to judge you as a person. What bored me was the idea I had built of you. I got bored of our dynamics, the dynamic…