I forget stuff when I become anxious. I usually am as cool as a cat, or at least I try to be, but somehow I've lost the cool recently, and I want it back. I lose so much will and agency when I'm too anxious. I become less of myself, I forget myself not to mention answers on tests. Part of this stems from a recent acceptance of caffeine consumption ( Read more... )

"This is the key point about thresholds: they are not the place of life and not the place of death.... Anything of moment takes place in these interstices - in the tunnels and passages and waiting periods. They are indispensable and yet must be kept tangential.

"It takes considerable courage to stay as long as needed in a place between, and it ( Read more... )