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Don’t Chase the Snake

Came across this quote sometime back and it has stayed with me long after I first heard it. Imagine being bitten by a snake, and instead of focusing on healing from the poison, you chase the snake. You want to know why it bit you. You want to prove that you didn’t deserve it. YouContinue reading “Don’t Chase the Snake”

The Smartest Update You’ll Ever Install

Somewhere along the way, we turned “changing your mind” into a weakness. Like it means you didn’t know enough. Like you got “caught.” Like you lost. But the older I get, the more I’m convinced it’s the exact opposite. The willingness to change your mind might be one of the clearest signs of intelligence thereContinue reading “The Smartest Update You’ll Ever Install”

The Strongest People

We grow up thinking strength is about holding everything together with steady hands and a stiff spine. We’re taught that the toughest people are the ones who never crack, never cry, never let their knees hit the ground. But life has a way of rewiring that definition. It breaks through the armor in the placesContinue reading “The Strongest People”

The Exit Theory

There’s a strange pressure we put on ourselves to stay—stay in conversations that leave us uneasy, stay in situations where we feel small, stay in rhythms that drain us even when we know better. Maybe it’s habit. Maybe it’s guilt. Maybe it’s that quiet fear that someone will ask, “Why are you leaving?” and weContinue reading “The Exit Theory”

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger?

My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” I said, “That’s just not true. Sometimes what doesn’t kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized.” He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, “It’s like woodContinue reading “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger?”