In your 20s, you'll feel like you're losing the race. It's important to understand that there is no race.

There's always something wild about reading an entire novel in a day. When I set it down at last, I had to remind myself, "Oh, yes, a reality exists outside this book."

idk who needs to hear this rn but relapsing doesn’t mean you’ll never get better. it doesn’t make you a failure. it makes you a human on their healing journey.

a vital part of bread making is 'knocking back' you take the risen dough, and you knock out some of the air and gass you spent that first rise developing. Why? That must ruin it?! But no. Knocking back and reshaping, is what helps the bread rise evenly, develop more flavour, take a finer shaping. So if life is knocking you back it might just be that you are being refined to be even better.

every day there's coffee and that's beautiful

Ohhhhhj so the childhood self doesn't disappear forever they come back as a ghost when you are struggling to break into adulthood and sit with you during your lunch break so you're not alone. Alright

Actually, you are enough. Even if you don’t work. Or study. Or go out. Or have friends. Or have family. You’re enough because you exist and your existence is enough to be enough because you are not a product. You are not a sum of output. You are not a task to complete. But because you are something the universe wanted and put here even if you’ll never understand why. Somewhere in the cosmos your existence makes a difference, even if it’s not the way others existences do.