The Never-Ending Fatigue of Accepting Yourself

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“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”— David Foster Wallace

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“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.” — David Foster Wallace

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“We’re all lonely for something we don’t know we’re lonely for., How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we’ve never even met?” — David Foster Wallace

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“How odd I can have all this inside of me and to you it’s just words.” — David Foster Wallace

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Do you ever wonder about creating a theory of your own mind?

We go through life, being told to look within ourselves, to then gather self-knowledge about that inner self. Some call this an inner truth or ‘my truth’ others might call this an escape into delusion.

Why? Because that inner truth becomes an illusionary and self-made narrative that we hope has enough myth to provide us a sense of awe and peace, but yet is grounded enough, in reality, to be validated …