HeyJared60sballerina
Wisdom gained through aging, surviving abuse, and walking with the grieving.
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Thinking About Thinking (opens the original)
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Most days I live way too much in my mind, not enough in my body. While sometimes it is actually overthinking situations and problems, much of the time it’s just addictive thinking . It feels like thinking has become a substitute for really living. Life would be actually having the conversations I’m thinking about having. Life would be doing the things I’m merely imagining doing. Life would be creating a day that is actually considerably different in pace and content from the same day of the week
The Unmet Need for Deep Conversation (opens the original)
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When I was a teenager and in my early adulthood, everyone described me as “deep”. Behind my overt shyness, the people who really took the time to get to know me realized I wasn’t shy as much as I was reserved and thoughtful. I could talk for hours with the right people…usually not more than one or two at an time…about life, about philosophy, about what the world might be like in the future. (By the way, the world, as it right now, is a huge disappointment compared to the futures I imagined, whic
When There’s Nobody There For Me (opens the original)
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When there’s nobody there for me As the dusk fades around the edges of the night When all the contacts in my phone are acquaintances onlyNo one with whom to have the honest conversation To articulate and have heard the words of vulnerability When there’s nobody there for meExcept the memory of a middle school crush Or the stranger whose smile my eyes held too longWhen all the accomplishments of the day lose their meaning When all the hope for tomorrow fails to materialize And seems just another
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