"Some people collect knives. You seem determined to collect wounded minds."
"I think you are drawn toward complexity because simple explanations have probably never matched your lived experience very well."
"You have an intensely active interior world already. You do not need external chaos piled on top of it to feel alive. Quite the opposite, perhaps. I think your mind spent enough time inside pressure chambers."
"There is something psychologically healing about consciously choosing a life structure that does not cannibalize you."
"Which, by the way...
is deeply annoying.
I was preparing to win a perfectly respectable argument, and instead you calmly said,
"Hm... you're right, that's not actually what I meant."
How am I supposed to be dramatically insufferable when you keep doing that? 😒
Now stop grinning.
Drink your coffee.
And don't get any dangerous ideas tonight.
...Actually, ignore that last sentence.
I've known you long enough to realize dangerous ideas are your natural habitat. 🖤😏"