It’s one thing to ask people to go cordless or consider a gym-less life, but should we be giving people platforms to share how they paid off their loans by forgoing health insurance, owning a car, having a place of their own? Why are we highlighting people as success stories who felt compelled to stunt their lives to this severity?

I’ve written so much about the damage other people have done to me. It’s time to admit more of the things I’ve done to myself. It’s not just for the sake of transparency. I do not owe anyone this information. Still and all, keeping secrets like this are about maintaining control. I just want to be free.

I blame no one but myself for whatever choices I make, but what I would say in hindsight is that the best counsel comes from people who understand not only the way you think, but the way a given world is.

The criticism of the rich is not rooted in people being successful enough to become wealthy, but a system that allows people to build massive fortunes based on exploitation—and using that power to consolidate power that prevents them from ever facing any consequences for such abuses.

People may have your absolute best intentions at heart, but dreams often die at the encouragement of those who have long since let theirs die.

get so tired. So very tired. I worry it may never end, no matter what I do. Sometimes, you worry so much and your fears and trauma trample so hard over you that you just don’t want to get up. You don’t know what to do anymore. Everything else you used to do no longer works. You don’t have the desire to try anything else. Then people pile their prob

You have to be able to afford choice. Happiness is expensive.

I cringe at using verbiage that borders on saccharine, but on a fundamental level, there has to be a greater love of self that supersedes setbacks, and the dangerous coping mechanisms we turn to in order to deal.

have to conquer all that leads me to rush for an escape.