Time and Chance

First, a little explanation. I love fiction. A lot. A couple years ago, I started telling some silly stories to my daughters before bed.…

Anxiety comes from living out imagined scenarios. Depression comes from living in comparison. A focus on your three-foot circle screens out those issues

If someone criticizes the self-righteous zealot, they can immediately deflect it as “being persecuted for God.”

You feel exhilarated one moment, and worthless the next. Who are you really?

Adjudicating a passing argument is an act of playing God

You can find kinder or meaner teachers of geometry, but that shouldn’t influence your belief in pi

The more complex and subjective a task is, the longer imposter syndrome will persist

A nagging, existential, joy-stealing fear that you are fundamentally not the right person

You’ll learn to expect identity revelations, welcome them, and color them in as details in the right places on your map

When you feel the urge to lie or cover-up, you can say to yourself, That’s not you anymore.