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You Cannot Love Yourself (opens the original)
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You cannot love yourself. An entire industry has been built on the opposite claim. There are shelves of books about self love. It is printed on mugs. It is the closing line of a thousand posts a day.Love is energy. Energy has to move to be felt. The current in a wire does nothing at all until it flows, and only then do you get light. Between you and yourself, there is nowhere for it to go.What people call self love is something else, and the something else is good. Self respect. Self acceptance.
The Room I Was Not Supposed to Enter (opens the original)
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There is a particular kind of silence a man learns in prison, and it has nothing to do with quiet.It is the silence of not being listened to. A man inside can speak all day. He can be right, he can be eloquent, he can have arrived at something true after years of sitting with it, and none of that matters, because the world outside has already decided what his words are worth. His voice exists. It simply has nowhere to land.I lived inside that silence for seventeen years.<a class="image-link imag
The Push and the Pull (opens the original)
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No one is ever told what he is.He is told a great many other things. He is told his name, his nation, his religion, what his family does for work and what it does not do, what is expected of a boy and what is beneath one. By the time he is old enough to examine any of it, the examination itself has already been shaped by what he was handed. He does not choose the lens. He simply looks through it and calls what he sees the world.<img a
The Door No One Reaches Through (opens the original)
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I want to tell you something I learned the hard way.For years I carried things I never spoke about. Like most people, and like nearly every first responder I have come to know, I believed that asking for help was an admission of weakness. That the job was to hold it together. That whatever I was carrying belonged to me alone, and that setting it down in front of another person would cost me something I could not afford to lose.I was wrong, and the silence nearly took everything from me.Here is w
Nobody Teaches You Pain (opens the original)
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There is a curriculum nobody taught you.Not in school. Not at work. Not in church, most of the time. Somewhere along the way you were supposed to learn what love actually is, and what death is, and what success is for, and what to do with your own pain when it arrives — and for most of us, that instruction never came. We were handed the facts of life and none of its interior.So we improvised. We watched the adults around us and copied whatever they were doing, which in a great many cases was num
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