finally looking at school trauma and jesus fucking christ man
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my entire relationship to the concept of achievement seems to be school-shaped
it’s like i always lowkey feel like i’m “failing” but also i don’t wanna do any of my “homework”
fuuuuuuuck thiiiiis
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love how i turn everything i do into a test i grade myself on up to and including “self-improvement” 🤢
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literally just repeating to myself “i’m not in school anymore” and then going through every school i’ve attended and telling myself i’m not in that school anymore and it’s a wild ride, my shoulders are doing some funny things
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I did this as part of some deep processing last Dec and it was very powerful. Went through classroom by classroom, teacher by teacher. "I am free from that room." "I am free from that building." "I am free from those assignments." "I never have to go back there."
"I am free." twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/st…
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yes i forgot to mention hearing about this from you was the inspiration! it really stuck with me