you have all these rules, and you think they'll save you

monospace passages taken from undoing the pain. sorry this is a very fragmented and sprawling post!

monospace passages taken from undoing the pain. sorry this is a very fragmented and sprawling post! i have too many drafts i want to finish before the end of the year all the ways in which you are not free, all your fears, all your anxieties, all your guilts, all your shames - these are also part of you. they cannot be separated from you. in seeking to free yourself, you will inevitably change yourself. your way of thinking, your likes and dislikes, your hopes and dreams, your way of being “you”, your “raison d’etre” - all of these things may change even without you intending them to.…

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• Laerdon Kim
• Dex Ter
• vain glory
• Alicia Ran

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