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it wouldn’t be beyond her to have seen me write something anti-Trump on social media and feel like it was a personal attack, which is a thing that’s uniquely American, in case you didn’t know.
It’s a natural fear, I get it. All humans, whether they know it or not, are profoundly impacted by their imminent deaths. Mortality is unbearably confronting, so much so that lots of people spend their whole lives trying to live as though it doesn’t chain them like it does the rest of us.
Death is confronting for sheltered people because it fractures realities.
The idea that it ends—that it all ends—that everything you spend your life doing and building toward one day amounts to actually nothing the second you take your last breath. It’s why people have children. To exist beyond their existence.
her and all other people to feel like they’re a mystery, because feeling like you’re mysterious seems to be something humans value, maybe because people don’t like to feel exposed,
He has ADHD, and—I probably don’t even need to explain it more than that—obviously he has inherently lower levels of dopamine, and so he’s always mining for it.
You can tell yourself you don’t even really want to be wanted by people like them anyway, but it isn’t true because the same way parents are supposed to want their kids, kids have a genetic predisposition to want to be wanted by them.
It’s a funny part of growing up, actually… Accepting that things that are better for you, healthier—they can still be painful. That the worst, most shameful day of my life to date would in turn become the most defining.
“Christian” has so little to do with acting Christ-like now, especially these days, and especially in America.
Girls like them who bat their eyes as they pick and choose from the Bible to create a world they’re comfortable to exist in.
Besides, I can eat lobster any time of the day; I don’t need those sorts of limitations on my life.
The nicest thing you can ever do for another human being is see them, and really see them, at that. To be understood is one of most base desires we as people have,
People who aren’t self-aware, people who haven’t lived their lives in the pursuit of truth, find that the truth is confronting if you don’t want to hear it.
