Alyssa

“And so we create a story—a “drama about me”—that may gradually wander far away from the here and now and far away from the way things actually are. Once the script we have concocted for ourselves has been set in the mind, we may unwittingly rely on it as a reference point for all present and future judgments—without ever checking back with the here and now. Without knowing it, our thoughts become words carved in stone rather than words written on water.”
― J. Mark G. Williams, The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness