sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
Sometimes I fantasize about disappearing.
Not dying.
Just logging off.
Getting a job no one cares about.
Growing tomatoes.
Writing poems in the margins of a notebook no one reads.
Not as a failure.
But as a kind of freedom.
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Be bored more often.
Go for long walks. Meditate. Journal your thoughts. Read new books. Spend time alone without devices. You would get to understand yourself a lot much better. Your brain gets the best ideas when it is left to wander.
In those quiet moments, you'll uncover clarity and inspiration that can't be found in constant stimulation.
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Best mental reset I’ve learned:
If your mind is loud — Write.
If your mind is empty — Read.
If your mind is racing — Walk.
If your mind is tired — Sleep.
If your mind is sharp — Build.
Most problems are just mismatched energy. Get the inputs right, the rest follows.
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i love it when a woman slowly steps out of survival mode and starts to fall in love with life again. when her zest for life comes back and when she starts to notice all the magic and blessings around her, it’s the most beautiful thing to witness.
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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Trump being called a chicken and knowing that will stick means today is the worst day of his life.
Right Taco?
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Question: If abortion bans in these states result in much higher birth rates of Asian, Black and brown babies compared to those of European descent, then what? Will these courts and legislators claim that these birth rates are a plot by Democrats to "replace 'real' America?" Will they legislate and use courts again to rule that some lives are more of a life than others, and it's unnecessary to work too hard to save the others?
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Thanks James. I did look at yours shortly after I hit send on my own. I thought of the unfavorable outcomes among women of color in childbirth too as I was writing my comment but didn't broach it. I hadn't considered population engineering to guarantee a desperate and perpetually low paid workforce. Very likely and possible.
Yet, just like many things mankind attempts to accomplish concerning natural processes, these plans could have unintended demographic results. It may not be immediate but a …
You are quite right. The complex and unpredictable nature of these 'social experiments' gives added importance to the full menu of autocratic right-wing strategies. They take a shot-gun approach (sometimes literally). Every outrageous technique they come up with - gerrymandering, for example - only adds to their power and the susceptibility of their supporters to propaganda. (It wasn't possible that Trump lost! Hence the insurrection). It is sinister and anti-democratic in the extreme. And we m…
Sigh...can't disagree. Frustrating state of affairs, James. I'll still be stubbornly casting my blue votes, the only weapon I still have in the face of what often appears an inexorable march to a SCOTUS-backed autocracy.
Now KKKaroline, BFFR
Jake Tapper, let’s talk about the original sin of the mainstream media how you covered up Donald Trump’s cognitive decline
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I’m so in love with this little girl!
