you vs. you - by Isabel - Mind Mine
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everything else is just an illusion
Natalie Portman in Black Swan (2010) “To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”—Dostoevsky Today I woke up with a stillness in me, a certain sense of: I’m headed in the right direction (for context: I just quit my job to focus exclusively on writing). It’s funny because people keep giving me advice, asking questions, saying things to me like: you should really do x, y, or z. or, what is your plan if you fail? And I listen to them, and act pensive (and maybe I am pensive), but the truth is that none of it really infiltrates my psyche. I think this is…
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