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Sitcoms aren’t the enemy

For a long time, I used sitcoms to escape reality. I imagined I was part of the friend group or family I was watching because I lacked my own. I was lonely. It became an addiction. (I call this phenomenon The Sitcom Friendship) So last summer, I decided to try to beat my addiction and eschew sitcoms. I thought they were foul, not worthy, and that I should direct my attention at ‘real’ art, especially since I wanted to become a great director. But honestly, I’ve never been the artsy type. I’ve never gotten along with other artsy types either.

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Surrender

I’m feeling anxious again. I feel lonely. I feel incomplete. I feel insufficient. I’m afraid of not living up to my own expectations. All I really want, deep down, is to be loved. I want a partner, I want a friend group, I want an audience. I’m deeply afraid that I’m a narcissist and that I’ll never be truly happy because nothing will ever be able to satisfy my massive ego. When I was a teenager, I wrote an essay that said all I really wanted was just to hang out with friends and laugh our assess off. I’ve been

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Nails, boogers, cold sores

When I was a kid, I was a fervent nailbiter. I chewed those things off until they started bleeding. My mom tried many things to get me to stop, including painting them with a specific transparent nailpolish, of which the chemical taste should discourage me from biting on them. Think that helped? Nope. After a while, I just started liking the taste. At some point, I solved my nailbiting problem by just cutting my nails really short. So short that it’s impossible to get a grip on them with my teeth. Great! Right? But the problem isn’t really gone. Whenever

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Solo travel, solo creation, fuck BCG

Another day, another wordvomit. I’m currently on vacation, or should I say ‘vacation’ in Mallorca. I’m by myself, and it’s causing me a lot of anxiety. I constantly fall into bouts of loneliness, melancholy and longing in between the short bursts of relaxation and optimism. I set out on this trip knowing that all of this could happen, and I set my intentions accordingly: to not fall victim and just enjoy my trip. But of course nothing went according to plan. It’s not like I haven’t enjoyed myself, I’ve seen some beautiful sights, read some amazing books and had some

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My first wordvomit

I’m trying something new. I started reading Visakan Veerasamy’s ebook INTROSPECT yesterday, and it has been everything I have needed and more. It contains a lot of useful stuff, but the one thing I knew I needed to start doing immediately was this: stream-of-conciousness journaling. Visa (I call him Visa cuz it already feels like I know him personally) calls them ‘wordvomits’, journal entries that are as raw and unedited as possible. He describes it this way: “Done well, journaling is a way of outrunning your inner critic, your homeostasis engine, yourmind’s propaganda department that tries to pretend that everything

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