Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. – Author Unknown This morning, before 9:00am, I was shaky with nervousness. And no, that nervousness wasn’t about the questionable Mediterranean food I ate last night. (Though I still have some lingering concerns about that.) My anxiety, actually, came from the fact that in one hour I…
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. — Soren Kierkegaard These last few weeks I’ve woken up with a sense of unease, an almost physical disturbance, like a picture frame slightly off level or a shoe lace that skipped an eyehole. An unsettling, really. An almost general sense of anxiety. But what could be causing it?…
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. — John Stuart Mill I am in quite a good mood. And only part of it stems from the fact that you’re reading this blog. Also, there is the residue of stomach happiness from eating ribs last night, but neither of those reasons are…
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. — Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club One morning I woke up, tired of being a coward. I was tired of being afraid. Tired of being intimidated. I realized that for 22 years I had confused “being nice” with “fear of confrontation.” So…
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. — Carl Reiner A frozen tundra, a snowy whisper: I cross the arctic just in slippers. Goosebumps, shivers, icy feel, replaced my chest with frozen steel. My breath is foggy, fingers numb; warmth, I fear, will never come The…
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~Kurt Vonnegut They say that you should laugh for at least 12 seconds every day. Even if nothing funny’s happened. Even if you’re just sitting in your car, by yourself, in…