SAM Frida

I don't have the energy to keep understanding people who don't try to understand back. I've spent so much of my life doing the work. Reading the subtext. Filling in the gaps someone left because they couldn't be bothered to say the thing directly. Translating silence...

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Talk is cheap because it costs nothing. That is the whole problem with it. Intention feels like progress. You decide something in your head, you say it out loud to a friend, you write it in a journal, and some part of your brain logs it as done. Psychologists call...

Dogs are angels. A stray on the street was once a puppy, curious and trusting, before something or someone taught it to be afraid. You don’t know that story. Nobody hands you the file on what happened before the fear set in, before the flinching, before the ribs...

Nobody wakes up peacefully. That's the part the wellness industry leaves out. The awakening doesn't arrive on a meditation cushion or a beach at sunrise. It arrives in a hospital hallway, a betrayal you didn't see coming, a diagnosis, a phone call at 2am, a marriage...

We look at a bad leader and call them a bad leader. We look at a bad hire and call them a bad hire. Easy target. Obvious villain. Nobody asks the harder question. Who voted for that leader. Who sat in the interview and bought the pitch. Who saw the resume, the charm,...

I sat down to write something deep. What came out instead was disappointment. Maybe that's the same thing. Here's what I keep landing on: there are values you don't compromise for any relationship. You're not rigid. You finally know what they are, and you know what it...