Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract arguments inside my head instead of simply paying attention to what's going on right in front of me. TC mark

I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.

'This thing I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?' — this sort of direct question is not for the squeamish. For one thing, it's perilously close to 'Do you like me? Please like me,' which you know quite well that 99% of all the interhuman manipulation and bullshit gamesmanship that goes on goes on precisely because the idea of saying this sort of thing straight out is regarded as somehow obscene.

...morning is the soul's night.

life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.

Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.