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“We do what we do to help. That’s all. You look further than that and you’ll drive yourself insane.”
I’d always marveled at how soundly others slumbered. Their minds could shut down and leave them be for hours at a time, while mine always seemed to be in third gear, just waiting to drop the clutch and burn rubber the moment I surfaced.
Someone once said we don’t have a justice system, we have a legal system. I think about that.
I think about that a lot.
People aren’t always ruled by their pasts, but they never really escape them either.
“Doing nothing is always doing something.”
We forget how young some people are when they start carrying weight beyond their years, then wonder why they struggle.
What was the point of work if it only funded a week’s vacation in some paradise where you could only ever be a visitor, never a resident? What good was it to hate waking up on Monday morning only to yearn for Friday night? If purpose became a perk not a prerequisite, what the hell were we even doing?
“The only thing we really have to give, and it’s special. Time’s just another word for love.”
Liberty in losing yourself in a place that’s yet to be exploited.
Being a child of abuse was a little like trying to outrun a storm. For a time you’re caught directly in the tempest, then—if you’re lucky—you escape it. But you’re never really free.
Human beings are the strongest and weakest part of the world. And when they break, they shatter everything around them.
