I Need You to Read This

by Jessa Maxwell

And yet, being so lost, so incredibly rock bottom, comes with a kind of freedom if you are able to harness it. Isn’t there something almost delicious about being able to start fresh? It’s like that Janis Joplin song, freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.

just focusing on surviving makes it hard to know what direction you’re heading or if you are going anywhere at all.

Cheaper than therapy, and just as good, she likes to lie to herself about her daily walks.

Walking might not be as good as psychotherapy, but it is the only way to feel like she is still moving forward in her life, even if she isn’t.

You are not miserable because of your job but rather because you have made it the whole focus of your life.

We can never get back time—it’s one of life’s biggest tragedies but also one of its greatest motivators. If things were not finite, there would be no need to ever evaluate what is most important to us.

“When I listen to the classics, I don’t know, it’s like I can hear them in a way I could never read them. Scenes and people appear in my mind. There is a melody to it. I can close my eyes and see it.

I need you to listen to me when I tell you it is not easier to stay. That a month or a year of stumbling around searching in the dark will be better than slowly allowing your life force to be stolen. It is no exaggeration to say that that is what he is doing to you.