HeyJaredCuriosity, Applied
A high school student exploring the intersection of science, engineering and real life.
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Why I stay longer than I should. (opens the original)
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There’s a particular kind of staying that has nothing to do with the present. The relationship is no longer working - you know this, some part of you has known it for a while - but you don’t leave. The friendship has been running on fumes for a year, the dynamic long since curdled into something that costs more than it returns, and still you stay. Not because of what’s there now. Because of everything that was there before. Because of all the time, and care, and versions of yourself you left ins
Your body knows more than you do. (opens the original)
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You walk into a room and something shifts. Not a thought - something earlier than a thought. A tightening across the chest, a faint pulling toward the exit, a stillness that comes before you’ve identified a single reason for it. By the time you’ve caught up consciously, the assessment is already done. Your body filed its verdict while you were still forming the question.We’ve been taught to distrust this. To call it anxiety, or oversensitivity, or the residue of a bad day. To wait for the ration
I confuse attention with care. (opens the original)
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There’s a version of being wanted that has nothing to do with being known. Someone texts first. Someone laughs loudest at what you said. Someone keeps finding reasons to be in the same room as you. It registers as warmth, as proof of something - and in the moment, it genuinely feels like it might be. The feeling is real. What’s less certain is whether what produced it was care, or simply the fact of being noticed.Most of us, if we’re honest, have spent stretches of time chasing the second one wh
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