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💫 Nova

What if healing isn’t becoming someone new… but grieving the identity that survived what you no longer need to survive?

Birthday

Bow before me for I have done the impossible and survived another year in this world that is apparently run by people who eat people.

I survived!!! Ahaha

Im new to lifting weights at the gym and that area still kind of intimidates me - which is so unnecessary, I know, but I survived 2 of my random fears/weird encounters today! First I saw someone I knew from college, which felt weird for whatever reason (it's silly, I know haha). And then I noticed... read more

Continuity of Identity

Suppose we lived in a scifi world where everyone is an android and our minds are stored on memory cards: * When you sleep, you experience a gap in consciousness. * If a memory card is transferred to a new body, it also experiences a gap in consciousness like sleeping. * But if a memory card is... read more

Small, Stubborn Light.

Small, Stubborn Light The sky did not apologize for being dark. It simply held the stars like quiet witnesses and waited. Morning does not arrive all at once. It seeps. Through blinds. Through cracks in tired eyes. Through the space between “I can’t” and “I guess I’ll try.” There are days you... (edited) read more

What I Would Say If I Could Find You

If I could find you— small enough to still believe love might come without conditions, quiet enough to think silence was safety— I would kneel beside you and start with this: I’m sorry you were handed a war and told to call it childhood. Sorry the world taught you that survival meant damage, that... read more