Hewwo???

i know, long fancy word, but BASICALLY EXCESSIVE PICKING AT YOUR NAILS IS LIKE,, A REAL THING??

holy fuck. no one told me about this. I've been having trouble with picking at my nails for yeaaarrsss. since i was like, 7 or 8. i remember getting hangnails from it a lot. hell, i still do, a lot!!!!

i use my nails, usually my thumbnail. to pick away at my nails and cuticles and nailbeds and so on. sometimes i'll bite on the skin around my nails, but never my ACTUAL nail. i dont bite my nails. i pick at them. ive been doing it for literal years.

if i can get my hands on scissors or something sharp, I'll usually use that to mess with my nails. its a real problem. i do it so much, not a day goes by where i dont have a hangnail or my nail hurts from excessive picking. i do it every. single. day. all the damn time. sometimes i do it when I'm thinking about something, sometimes i do it when im bored, i do it a lot when im nervous. i just destroy my nails

but get this: my little sister does it too. i have 4 younger siblings, and the very youngest, my sister, has just started doing it too. she doesn't know i do it, she's fucking what, 7? she's 7 and does it. just like i did when i was 7.

——     neal shusterman.

❛  my greatest wish for humanity is not for peach or comfort or joy.  ❜

❛  for only the pain of empathy will keep us human.  ❜

❛  hope in the shadow of fear is the world’s most powerful motivator.  ❜

❛  humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true.  ❜

❛  without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy.  ❜

❛  love remained mortal, while we became eternal.  ❜

❛  human nature is both predictable and mysterious.  ❜

❛  guilt is the idiot cousin of remorse.  ❜

❛  those who would most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.  ❜

❛  but remember that good intentions pave many roads. not all of them lead to hell.  ❜

❛  i have become the monster of monsters. the butcher of lions.  ❜

❛  power comes infected with the only disease left to us: the virus called human nature.  ❜

❛  because if we didn’t feel those things, what monsters would we be?  ❜

❛  all of that is behind us now, and yet a simple truth remains: people have to die.  ❜

❛  the past never changes — and from what i can see, neither does the truth.  ❜

❛  innocence is doomed to die a senseless death at our own hands.  ❜

❛  what must it have been like to believe in something greater than oneself?  ❜

❛  death must exist for life to have meaning.  ❜

❛  if we were judged by the things we most regret, no human being would be worthy.  ❜

❛  it’s my pleasure to be your displeasure.  ❜

❛  because rain is the closest thing i have to tears.  ❜

❛  in time, all storms settle to a pleasant breeze.  ❜

❛  to deny humanity the lesson of consequences would be a mistake.  ❜

❛  grief is not an excuse for depravity.  ❜

❛  man creates god, who then creates man. is that not the perfect circle of life?  ❜

❛  that which comes cannot be avoided.  ❜

❛  what’s the point of living forever if you can’t take a few risks?  ❜

❛  please give me a sign. that’s all i ask. just a sign that you haven’t abandoned me.  ❜