i think ultimately you do really have to kill that part of your brain that vividly imagines how you would redo parts of your life.
Glennon Doyle, Untamed
This is lovely advice.
Neil Gaiman’s Advice to Aspiring Artists
You are enough as you are.
You don't need to be healed. You don't need to have accomplished certain things. You don't need to have met your goals, or done something you see as groundbreaking.
You are enough, right now, as you are. I promise.
https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/im-broke-and-friendless-and-ive-wasted-my-whole-life.html
by invastel
This a a reminder to not fall victim to the sunk-cost fallacy. Just because you invested time and energy into something, does not mean you should indefinitely waste more time and energy on it, if you decide it’s not what you want anymore. This goes for anything, from books, to relationships, to jobs, to hobbies, etc.
If it’s not serving you anymore, move on.
embarrassment has good bones
Henry Miller in a letter to Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin Henry Miller, 1932-1953
sorry for being indecisive, I haven’t had any prophetic dreams to guide me in a while