On Love

Allowing yourself to experience love in any form is the ultimate vulnerability, but the only thing that makes life worth living. It’s a conundrum: the ability to love is the reason we seek to protect ourselves, but in order to experience it, we have to leave ourselves unprotected in a sense.

Ted Cruz is the Worst

The thing that makes Ted Cruz the worst is that he instinctually understood that supporting fascism was bad, and he took a few moral stands against it before fully capitulating. The fact that he obviously knows right from wrong, but still chose wrong, makes him infinity times worse than your average opportunist. Vote Beto!

Don’t get in your own way

For some reason the failures that sting me the most are the ones where I get in my or someone else’s way. So I always try to be hyper conscious of my own intent and motivation. Plus, I’ve learned when I don’t make things about myself, they turn out better. 

Or, as David Byrne said, ‘Life is long if you give it away’.

Empathy

Serious question: what is it about the conservative mind that makes it only allow nuance and ‘gray areas’ when they themselves have personally had an interaction with the idea on hand?

Shower Thought #1

Thinking about the difference in meaning of ‘throw up’ and ‘throw down’ is amusing.

‘For now, let’s throw down. After that, we can throw up’.