Blue Side

Excuse me while I cry like a fucking baby, but I showed my grandma my VR headset for my phone today. I loaded up the basic Google cardboard app and showed her around and she was so amazed. I told her we could even boot up Google Earth. We took her to Paris and to her childhood home and to the Grand Canyon and a bunch of other places she’s always wanted to visit. My brother and I are helping her navigate around and she’s just so... Fuck. There aren’t even words to describe how elated and fascinated and.. breathtaken she was. My brother and I were crying because she’s just so happy to be able to “visit” these places and to be able to help her experience those things was amazing.

one of the hardest things to learn as a depressed former Gifted Kid™ is that half-assed is better than nothing. take the 50%, 40%, even 20% job. scrubbing your face is better than not taking a shower at all. picking up your clothes is better than never cleaning. nibbling on some bread is better than starving.

One of my college professors used to say “anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.”  I didn’t understand that for years because I didn’t do anything poorly, I couldn’t do anything poorly, I had to Do Everything Perfectly.

Sometimes I’m like “ancient greek plays are so old, how am i going to relate to the characters?” but then