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No, I do not believe rehabilitation is achievable. Especially for the Bundys and Dahmers of the world. They are governed by their Id—and the Id is the ultimate monster.
“None of us are powerless. Choice is the most powerful thing in this world. Everyone has a choice.”
Even so, we all lie to ourselves to some extent. It’s the way our mind protects us. If we realized just how insignificant we are, well—” I laugh “—then we might lose the will to live.”
Which rules do we obey? Those of man, or those of the universe?
It’s intoxicating, the way he seduces my pain away, as if we really do command our own world.
The burden of an unfinished life is a dense weight bearing down on my chest. The painful compression heightens my anxiety until I’m hyperventilating.
I never could have shared myself or my time with something so demanding as motherhood.
“You wanted to see how far the rabbit hole went,” he says. “Did Alice enjoy her Wonderland adventure? No, she was terrified. And to think, it was all in her mind. The most frightening things in this world usually are.”
“It’s strange what impacts us. What defines us. People don’t remember the good. They remember what guts them.”
I don’t believe in divine beings. Life is simpler than that.
Solitude reveals who we are. Isolation is not loneliness; it’s the absence of noise and distraction. It forces you to acknowledge your worth. If you must surround yourself with people, you invite distractions from the one person deserving of your time: you.
“I wasn’t born this way.” I turn my head away, my fingers seeking desperately for the string. “We weren’t born the day we took our first breath. We were born the moment we stole it.”
Take away our matter, and we exist only in thought.
The truth is a nice dash of salt in a fresh, cavernous wound.
What the fuck is the world coming to. I suppose these are questions for a psychologist. I just happen to know one. Intimately.
If people didn’t want to be manipulated, they wouldn’t make it so damn easy.