my therapist helped me being comfortable in my own skin. i was mostly not expressing myself because i was afraid people would hate me, and now they do hate me. so thanks? lol

i want to learn how to sew but i don't know if this new found enthusiasm for learning new life skils is just an elaborate way to not work on my phd applications

i have figured out that a lot of my politeness is just social anxiety so i am going to be less polite from now on to remain authentic to my own self. from soft butch to soft bitch

anxiety is so bad you cannot even do the things u like because they don't feel good they just make you feel horrible instead. and once u get better at things you just find out other things you can't do and it's just a gradual realization of you're stuck with this your whole life you have to carry that weight with you everywhere

we have to really rethink why we hold work so sacred not only for mental health but also for how unreasonable it is to expect someone who has no job security/benefits/easily replaced/no room for creativity and someone for whom work can take on more meaning eg. an academic who has the opportunity to think creatively, is covered by several benefits (including low rent housing) etc to have the same commitment to work. But we think badly of ppl who don't work hard, why? A person is not just a worker

i think it's not that 'everybody's morally grey' but that poor people don't really have any moral choices that they can make freely, everything is stacked up against that and the 'country we are living in' is injustice so there is no avenue for that at all. anyway comrade bong joon ho had the line 'kind because you're rich' which pretty much sums it up. they don't even let someone be a person

Gail Omvedt, Seeking Begumpura: The Social Vision of Anti-Caste Intellectuals