This Won't End Well

by Camille Pagán

optimistic assumptions are the fastest way to become deeply disillusioned by human nature.

While a pessimistic view on the world, i find it accurate that too much optimism generally leads to disappointment

depression is more exhausting than most people comprehend,

So often people downplay depression as just sadness or melancholia but it is a physically draining battle and i apprecite this

The price of self-protection may, in fact, be higher than the cost of vulnerability.

If you are so busy trying to protect yourself, you may miss out on some of the best things in life

Life is too short to be living the story someone else has told about you.”

I spent years trying to live up to the person others expected me to be, but in the end, being me is the most fulfilling thing in my life

you’re only as alone as you think you are.

I have been in the past, convinced that I have to weather life's storms alone, but the truth is I only had to do that because I thought I couldn't ask for help