I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.
Ned VizziniI eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear.
Ned VizziniItโs a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesnโt want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.
Ned VizziniSometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.
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