I've been pestering everyone for so long about my problems (both writing and otherwise) when I should be focusing on self-improvement. That's why I've decided to stop turning others off with my problems and focus on others, how they feel, and how I can get better for both them and myself. Thank you all for helping me realize this and for all the helpful advice you've given me over the years. I appreciate it.

Wisdom. Advice. Motivation.

The three points of the book, though sometimes sounding like tidbits, are profound in their message and execution. Each chapter is a point, supported by a relevant story from the admiral's days as a Navy Seal, each concise in getting its theme across.

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I'm in a Carl's Jr hanging with my family.

An odd arrangement of words foresure and especially in a website about writing but, I feel like it's odd choices are needed in this mundane life.

So here I am, eating with my family. And it's, nice.

I've been so alone with my thoughts and cursing myself that I forgot that there were others here for me. That's so hard to remember for some odd reason and weirder is I know it's not healthy and yet I never saw it as a problem.

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How do I love and care about myself as much as I say I love and care about my friends? I want to stop disappointing myself so I stop breaking my mom’s heart, because she already lost her husband to shittyness, she doesn’t want to and can’t watch me squander my amazing potential on idle hedonism every single day year after year.

P.S: this extends to writing as well. Believe it or not, I would like to write more than just shitfics all the time.

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I think it's good to reflect on a teaching that has shaped my current worldview, as I believe it is relevant to the current climate we live in. That being the teachings of stoic philosophy. 

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I often make references to the idea that writing is a constant quest for self-improvement. It requires self-reflection and self-critique. But there is a limit to this. After a certain point, self-reflection and self-critique always suffer from a lack of perspective. There's a reason you get reviewed annually at most jobs.

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UPDATE: I'd really like recommendations of stories to read that could improve my writing!

Last night, I dreamt I was taking a standardized test in an amphitheater with a few hundred other students. Except I teach college, and it was an eleventh-grade exam (all the other students were teens).

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