I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
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Read between July 30 - July 31, 2025
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Sometimes the best thing to do with people who would never listen to you in the first place is to avoid them altogether. To right every wrong you come across in the world would be an impossible endeavour for any one person. You’re just one person, and you’re putting too much of the weight of the world on yourself.
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a superego built not only from your own experiences but cobbled together from all sorts of things that you admire, creating an idealised version of yourself. But that idealised version of yourself is, in the end, only an ideal. It’s not who you actually are. You keep failing to meet that ideal in the real world, and then you punish yourself.
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It’s because you have this idealised version of yourself in your head that you’re so obsessed with your looks. You’ve made that idealised version very specific and unattainable. Which is why you might think things like, I’m a failure if I weigh over eight stone! The only thing to do here is to keep trying different things, little by little, trying to understand how much change is comfortable for you and what it is you really want. Once you understand what you like and how to reduce your anxiety, you’ll feel satisfaction. You’ll be able to accept or reject what others say about you.
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you have unrealistically high standards, you will forever be creating reasons to see yourself as inadequate, as someone who needs endless improvement.
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the point of thinking: I want to go up to that person and ask her how she did it! But the you of the present is looking at your life and past as if you’re a failure. When in truth, from the perspective of a younger you, you’re the very picture of success.
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What I’m saying is, don’t compare yourself to other people. Compare yourself to your past self.