Packing up my apartment, to move back to Connecticut, back in with Mom and Dad ( Read more... )

I guess Nate and I broke up. It doesn't feel like a reality yet. I feel embarrassed that I have no answer when people ask "oh no, what happened?!" Nothing happened. Nate is too scared to live his life. Is that an answer?

i’ve never felt less like getting out of bed.
i haven’t cried yet but i know that once it starts, it will seem endless.
it will feel ( Read more... )

Depression is an evil in need of healing. To accept evil is not to bow to evil; to deny evil is to bow.

The chief human problem is not lust, or desire, as Buddha averred, no--it is imperfection, how we hold ourselves accountable for aspects of our nature ungoverned by will, how we punish ourselves for lacking the wisdom to avoid tragedy only after ( Read more... )

    More than ever, this summer has solidified for me how alone people really are. I am surrounded by people who love me, people I love, but inside, there are things that no one can or will ever understand. I wonder how people go through their whole lives, decades upon decades, knowing that they will die, the people they love will die, and they ( Read more... )