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When you're young, you think the people doing drugs are hardcore. Then you get older and see people raw-dogging reality and form a very different opinion entirely.

My soul took a beating today. I got stretched too thin and I feel weak. Fragile. Limits are a hard thing to accept. Reaching them is scary. I didn't blow up today and I feel this pressure. I'll exercise. I'm out of shape, but sitting here is deepening the ache something terrible.

My current career pays me well enough but I do feel I would be more fulfilled in one of those Science jobs where you get rats addicted to cocaine.

Housing will continue to become more expensive for as long as it can be exploited by capitalism.

Politics is about trying to prove yourself right. Science is about trying to prove yourself wrong. Faith and doubt. Powerful enemies and dangerous friends.

Our state of mind is a product, in part, of the narratives we consume. Is it any wonder we feel like we're drowning when wading through the toxic waters of a poisoned political discourse and sensationalized news ecosystem? Consume a frivolous narrative. Inject a little whimsy, and note its effect.

It’s fun starting a new hobby with ADHD because I never know if I’ve found a new lifelong passion or if I’m going to spend $2000 on stuff and immediately lose all interest

I'm not sure what it means for spring if Punxsutawney Phil comes out of his hole and sees a Nazi.

How can anyone be both informed and at peace in this world? That depends on what you believe it means to be at peace. Maybe you are afraid, or angry, and rightfully so. I do not think this disqualifies you from peace.

It is the intangible nature of memory that makes loss so painful. Time is a river, and it flows in only one direction. There is no going back, only forward. But, still. There is a tragic kind of beauty in the longing for what can never be. A universal understanding of the experience of melancholy.

I wonder if any sapient species will span the gap between stars in the history of the universe. Maybe the fate of all sentient species is to shout into the void until we join the silence. To be aware of the odds that others must exist, and be forever lonesome.