While in search for an antidote to perfectionism, I stumbled on the notion of an elegantly disheveled life. I often professed to be a healthy perfectionist, which is a bit of an oxymoron. Anything taken to the absolute is heading into toxic territory. Perfectionism is no different. At best it is conscientiousness with a critical … Continue reading Unravel – Perfectionism
Month: Jun 2018
Unravel – loneliness and its antidote
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald I pretended I was not myself during the time of my mid twenties. The country was already stuffed with returnees and I wanted to be different. A … Continue reading Unravel – loneliness and its antidote
Unravel – Tinder and Romanticism
I've spent the bulk of my recovery messing around on Tinder. Ok I am very late to this game… perhaps I missed it’s prime entirely? Was it always so... boring? Is it odd that it’s actually killed my sex drive? Okay… I get that folks don’t go on Tinder to find love. It’s for hook-ups. … Continue reading Unravel – Tinder and Romanticism
Unravel – Perseverance
Managing ourselves is difficult. In the midst of a raging storm, clarity and acceptance can be frustratingly out of reach. Sometimes your body takes over and you become a passenger in your own mind. It is a frustrating fact of existence that we process things intellectually and processing them emotionally at different a difference pace, … Continue reading Unravel – Perseverance
Unravel – the Metaphor
Those sharp little fangs bit down and drew blood and he knew it was a metaphor. Fast friends, they had met on New Year’s Eve and she was in his life for 175 days. Some days he had felt so close to her that his wings melted and felt his monstrous heart plummet from the … Continue reading Unravel – the Metaphor
Unravel – Prologue
A month after my 30th birthday, I found myself perilously employed at a job I resent, functionally broke, estranged from family, inconsolably lonely with an anguished heart, and hospitalized for two weeks from complications during retinal detachment surgery – which had no apparent cause in the first place other than to add to the cascading … Continue reading Unravel – Prologue
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