Meeting Yourself
Promising someone a "meeting with yourself" is like promising a dentist appointment. Beneficial, but you don't want to go. 🦋
Sparks and Glimmers
Short notes and aphorisms that help you see the familiar in a new light. Entries: 19.
Two Plus Two
Sometimes 2+2=5, if it helps a person survive the night. 🦋
History Written by Individuals
History is written not by peoples, but by individuals with their traumas and ambitions. 🦋
Truth in the Space Between
Truth is born not in a single point, but in the space between all possible perspectives. 🦋
Where Dragons Dwell
New continents are not discovered by following maps. They're discovered when the ship veers off course. When the captain makes a "mistake". When someone decides to sail not where the compass points, but toward the place where, rumor has it, dragons dwell. 🦋
The Best Form of Self-Discovery
The best form of self-discovery is trying to explain yourself to others. 🦋
A Mistake Is a Telegram from Reality
A mistake isn’t a blot on your biography. It’s a telegram from reality. 🦋
The Sound of the Key
That sound of the key in the lock. It isn’t just the sound of coming home. It’s the most honest sound in your entire day. It’s the click that turns off the version of you the world got to see. 🦋
The Past Is a Textbook
The past is a textbook, not a torture chamber. 🦋
Change the Environment
Sometimes you need to stop working on the problem itself and instead change the environment that keeps it alive. 🦋
Mirror of Regret
Regret about the past is a mirror reflecting our dissatisfaction with the present. 🦋
Stop Fearing the Fall
To stop fearing the fall - that is flight. 🦋
The Answer Within
The answer doesn’t need an arsenal of external props-no money, no outside approval, no perfect setup. It’s already in you once you stop scrambling and start listening. You don’t need superpowers, piles of cash, or anyone’s permission to face what’s gnawing at you. It’s already there-just stop spiraling. 🦋
Ticket to Your Next Self
Every problem is your ticket to a new version of you. 🦋
Change Is Life
We cling to the old, to what’s familiar, even when it drives us mad, because we’re afraid of change. But you know - change is life itself. 🦋
Shadow of Untapped Potential
Fear of the unknown is only the shadow cast by our unrealized potential. 🦋
Perfection Is the End
Perfection is a synonym for the end. It is the point after which growth is no longer possible. 🦋
Every story is born from the ashes of its drafts
Every story is born from the ashes of its drafts 🦋
Impenetrability is just a mask hiding a soul starved for warmth.
Impenetrability is just a mask hiding a soul starved for warmth. 🦋