"Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. It is also tiresome. People cannot abide being around you when you are depressed. They might think that they ought to, and they might even try, but you know and they know that you are tedious beyond belief: you are irritable and paranoid and humorless and lifeless and critical and demanding and no reassurance is ever enough. You’re frightened, and you’re frightening, and you’re “not at all like yourself but will be soon,” but you know you won’t."
— Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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"And after the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it’s burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being – and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth."
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
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I think people forget to mention that your twenties are filled with existential crisis
"You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better."
— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
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There’s a band playing really relaxing music at the house next door and I want to eat pizza in bed but I’m just going to fall asleep instead
stop being friends with people you don’t really like
stop following people you don’t really like
stop checkin up on people you don’t really like
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