I Don't Know If I'll Ever Be Able To Fix This

shoutout to sysmates who feel disconnected from their system, or aren't liked by their system, or only have a few people they like in their system, etc.

-Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems 1: 1965-1975

there’s a part of me that isn’t the same anymore.

D.M. Aderibigbe, from “Letter from My Father, Odysseus”

“I am always between two worlds, always in conflict. I would like sometimes to rest, to be at peace, to choose a nook, make a final choice, but I can't. Some nameless, undescribable fear and anxiety keeps me on the move. On certain evenings like this, I would like to feel whole. Only a half of me is sitting by the fire.”

— Anaïs Nin, from “The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934.”

Sometimes it is your fault.. Sometimes you don’t listen well enough, you’re selfish, you’re rude and you aren’t always right. Sometimes you fucked it up and tbh that’s okay. It happens, learn from it, apologize and keep it moving. Just because you fucked up doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. Don’t dwell on it

Mahmoud Darwish, With the Fog so Dense on the Bridge in Almond Blossoms and Beyond (tr. Mohammad Shaheen)

— Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883