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just finished. i felt numb.

“Life is as messy as a bag whose owner never cleans it out.” that's my bag

“... but once we began to talk, I could feel everything flowing out of me. I had thought I only needed one person to share things with, but I was wrong.” this.

reading the "my dog, my all" chapter with my dog

"normally i'm afraid of adults (despite my having become one)" you and me both

the dream chapter makes my heart ached a little and a little lump in my throat formed

“We always put modifiers in front of ourselves. ... These modifiers can never explain the whole of a person.”

“... it's so rare to see someone who walks the talk. The silly thing is, we feel uncomfortable even if we find someone who walks the talk.”

the whole turning my gaze chapter >>>

“So I turn my gaze. From despair to hope. From discomfort to comfort. From the majority to the minority. From the things that are useful but make me rust to the things that are useless but make me beautiful.

One I turn my gaze, I see the more interesting aspects of life.”

“Being imperfect is all right and being awkward is okay. You don't have to cheer up. I can do well today, or not. It'll be an experience either way. And that's fine.”

“Just go ahead and feel what you feel. Don't cheer up!”

"... light and darkness are part of the same thing. Happiness and unhappiness alternate throughout life, as in a dance."

"I feel completely drained. I don't want to work." you and me both

"Life is all about getting better and getting worse and getting better again, so getting worse is a natural part of life and I just have to learn to deal with it."

"... but if life gives one more suffering than death, shouldn't we respect their right to end life? .... Is living until the end really a triumph in every case? As if there can be any true winning or losing in this game of life."

“The social gaze is so insidious. ... I don't know why an individual has to be treated as less-than and strive to fit society's standards when it's the people who denigrate others who are the real problem.”

“are you saying you see yourself from men's perspective?" fuck men fuck patriarchy fuck social norms fuck beauty standards

“To tell the truth, no one was looking down on me except myself.”

“Everyone has multiple sides to them, happiness and unhappiness coexists, and everything is relative.“

“I hope you learn to look at a person as a whole before judging them. And to look upon yourself as a whole individual as well.”

yeah fairytales are one-dimensional that's why we should cancel them

“Emotions have something like passageways, and if you keep blocking your bad emotions, you end up blocking your good emotions as well.”

“i'm annoyed all the time though. no matter who it is." never felt so seen.

i don't think my younger self would cry for joy when she met me

“... Don't compare yourself to other people. Compare yourself to your past self.” damn ok

“But the you of the present is looking at your life and past as if you're a failure. When in truth, from the perspective of a younger you, you're the very picture of success.”

i always think abt this mindset. but is it really enough to convince ourselves we're doing great? i mean yes let's say in the perspective of my younger self i might look great but what does she knows abt it? she's naive. what is great?

well at least she loved her degree and job, i don't