deepest brown eyes

"Was this book good or was I deeply 19 when I read it:" an investigative journalism series

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The inconvenient thing about life is that half of it is all about listening to your body and letting yourself rest, and the other half is accepting that life will be uncomfortable and inconvenient sometimes and you've just go to make yourself push through your brain going Do Not Want and get the discomfort out of the way, and you never know which one it is.

how does one develop discipline in the first place. it seems like discipline requires initial discipline to develop. it's a paradox.

you have to hit rock bottom so hard that you almost die

yes they are toxic but it is because of the love. without the love it would be a lot healthier actually.

one time a professor asked me if i’d ever wanted to write anything “more important” than romance. and i said no. i was put on this earth to write about sad people kissing. and if another writer ever came up to me and said they wanted to write 400 pages containing nothing but a character baking a single loaf of bread each day, then i would tell them to do that. people don't write something because it's important. they write about something and that is what makes it important

the years have made me weird and strange to talk to. but still i must post