you vs. you - by Isabel - Mind Mine

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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