I think forever is an incorrect concept.

Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy.

As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time

Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless...

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

i know he's been looking forward to this--and i know that i've been looking forward to this. but now i have to stop looking forward and start looking at where i am. it's hard.

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.