Katja Bart

You just haven’t found the right person yet

Things will be better. It doesn’t feel that way now, but they will.

There is more to me than my anxiety, I promise you that.

Whether I agreed with a person or not, whether I committed to helping them out or letting them deal with the consequences of that choice, those were on me.

Tiptoeing around calling someone out on their shit

After all, who wants to get messy? Who wants to admit they’re human?

For the most part, I kept off the booze, and as it turned out, being (mostly) sober in my college years taught me a few interesting things. 

“Have you tried this totally different medium? I hear it’s really popular right now.”

It’s too late to pretend that I’m cool or dignified about any of this – but maybe someone else can be.

Being honorable sometimes means helping others, but it also means detaching with compassion if the other person does not want to be helped. 

You have to be able to live with just yourself as company, otherwise your fear of being alone will drive you mad.

Street harassment is a common occurrence. It happens to everyone, for the same reason – because harassers decide they want to make you feel scared and little. I didn’t cause it, I can’t control it, I can’t change it.