Jimmy and his contributions … .

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I feel less pressure when I read magazines backwards.

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Even if what I'm doing isn't wrong, I should still ask myself if what I'm doing is right.

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When in doubt about the future, this very moment will have to do.

“Finding the joy in this very moment” is the meaning of life after all.

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F1: It’s like I can’t win with this.

F2: This is outside of you. You cannot win.

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Don’t worry guys, I got your back. Unlike some people who let the door slam behind them as you’re following them in from the rain.

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I got writer’s block with everything. No words, no music, no paint. Empty vessel. Probably the first time in my life since I learned how to create that I haven’t had an outlet I wanted to abuse.

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Life could always be worse — I could be paralyzed from the ankles down.

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Touch.

Touch is a basic human need. My go-to example for this is the post-Ceasecu situation in Romania’s orphanages. We need physical contact with each other. We need to touch and to be touched. Both sexual and non-sexual snuggles produce Oxytocin, which scientists say appears to stimulate bonding and might do things like help our bodies heal faster. I’m not a scientist, but I know anecdotally that skin-on-skin contact relaxes people. A good hug really does help. Laying around with each other like a pile of kittens is so delightful that Jess and I’s couch for years was an almost non-stop cuddle-puddle of whatever friends happened to be over at the time.

Touch is such a huge, magical part of who I am. And not necessarily in the sexual way, but just human contact for those I care about, those that I love. When the touch is gone, the bond feels gone.

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