flâneur

nothing feels quite like rejection - by vincent huang

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lately i’ve been confused about what value i am providing to the world. it seems that i am in possession of a rare set of legos, and i am just a few steps away from building something shiny, but for one reason or another i keep assembling the legos in incoherent arrangements and nothing beautiful ever gets created? what i mean is something like - i have a lot of useful skills and strengths, enough to be a decent engineer or researcher or coworker, but empirically not enough to be a great one; people generally enjoy spending time with me, enough to want to be friends, but not enough to want…

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