ancient names (pt. III)

santa claus but instead of naughty or nice i judge if uve been banal or avant garde 

The kind of person you become when youre alone with yourself for most of the time is so frustrating and stupid. Like when a tree tries to grow into itself

Does anyone else get pissed off when you wake up just as you were making significant progress in some bullshit task you had to do in a dream? Like great now I did all that shit for nothing

your strengths are harder to see than your weaknesses because the problems you're good at solving don't appear as problems, because you're so good at handling them before they become problems... unlike the relatively rare problem that becomes a crisis, which demands undue attention. it's sort of like a reverse survivorship bias. the problems that become noticed as problems, the moments where you notice your capacity has a gap, are only the ones that aren't cut off at the pass by your strength and capability, before they become problems. so if all you focus on is problems then all you'll see is your weaknesses. which isn't accurate

going to spend some quiet time in the kiln

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