Divine intervention

The more I learn about biology, the more I feel like the world is just too perfect to have evolved without any divine intervention.

I guess that makes me a deist.

Newtown

Social media has evidently granted everyone a detective kit and an ego to go with it.

"Yeah, I'm an asshole."

There seems to be a belief that calling yourself out as an asshole gives you permission to be one.

It really doesn't. You're still an asshole. And if anything, it's worse because even though you're aware that you have a problem, you still don't give a shit.

I should listen to my own advice.

Feelings

I fear those who can change their feelings to what they know they should be feeling.

Giving Thanks

Pretty ironic how I only began to appreciate my life once I realized how meaningless it was.

The nice guy loses

"I was late to understand that chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. Normal people are not always boring. On the contrary. Volatility and passion, although often more romantic and enticing, are not intrinsically preferable to a steadiness of experience and feeling about another person. These are beliefs, of course, that one has intuitively about friendships and family; they become less obvious when caught in a romantic life that mirrors, magnifies, and perpetuates one's own mercurial emotional life and temperament."

Is it odd that I never found instability to be appealing?

Praise

Praise from your family or your friends doesn't necessarily mean anything. They have a social obligation to lie to you.