Jamie Varon

Perfectionism is about being frozen because you never want to find out that you are not the best at something. You circle the drain and repeat old behaviors and you control what you know you can control because the idea of risking being wrong or incorrect or imperfect makes your heart race in a terrible way.

Well, you’re technically supposed to be grown, and yet…

Grab that cozy blanket and curl up with your tears!

We’re forgetting how to be alive, how to be in pain, how to suffer. We’re glossing over. We’re saying we’re fine when we’re not fine. We’re lying to ourselves and to everyone else.

Sometimes it feels like you’re the only person in the world trying to do everything and be everything all at the same time.

If someone pulls out a quote of your writing to compliment your writing skills, you fall in love with them a little bit in that moment.

Your life’s motto: No plan is ever as good as a canceled plan.

Maybe the point of life is to always be lost. Maybe we’re not supposed to have our shit together, to have it figured out, to find our way.

Having a constant back-and-forth about whether we can pursue a career or a family and then being angered that we even have to choose one or the other in the first place.

You are actually having an existential crisis right now. It’s in progress. You are questioning your entire existence. Nothing is okay.

“Did I sleep with him too soon?”

If there’s one consistently true thing about humans, it’s that we constantly undermine our potential.