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Anonymous asked: Please, just take five minutes to chill out. Have a drink of water. Get some fresh air. Not everything needs to be taken seriously, and one person can't save the world.
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A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence and a time to speak

I know I\u2019m a little overclocked right now, but I know how my moods work and when the muse strikes I just ride it out for all it\u2019s worth, I know I\u2019ll have fallow periods again and I can rest then.

Really, I can\u2019t do anything but, it\u2019s the written version of pressured speech, I need to put this shit down and send it out in order to get it out of my head.

I assure people, I know myself and how to take care of myself so I don\u2019t burn myself out. At the same time as my recent cultural turn, I\u2019ve lost touch with day-to-day politics news, which frees up a lot of time and mental bandwidth.

I make myself go to sleep even if I don\u2019t feel tired, like I\u2019m about to right now, because I know that even if I don\u2019t feel the signals of tiredness and still have ideas in my head, my mental performance degrades without sleep and I\u2019ll end up writing, with absolute confidence, extensive, intricate, layered explanations of how everything connects to everything else that are totally batshit.

Likewise, when I drink I remind myself to compensate cause if I aim for a target level of relaxation I might never hit it and end up completely shitfaced while full of energy and plans and agency and confidence.

I\u2019ll be fine, and honestly, this kind of is living my best life.

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