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Feb 18 5 tweets 2 min read
COVID restrictions are lifting. The end is in sight. It's time to forgive all the people you disagreed with.

No one had a monopoly on the truth, good information was hard to find and kept changing, and we all went friggin crazy.

Once the pandemic's over, let it be over.
Oh hell yeah, doin numbers, thanks @JesseKellyDC

I believe mercy, forgiveness and tolerance are only virtues if you offer them to your enemies, and when it's most difficult to do so. Otherwise they mean nothing.

If you believe that too, I would love if you'd follow my acct.
I always thought getting ratioed would be terrible but I'm having the time of my life, this is the finest possible hill to die on, thank you all so much

I promise I will read each and every reply but I'll only interact if you appear developmentally capable of nuance
I do, however, forgive all of you, and I'm not even going to report any of your tweets
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Feb 19
After I healed the cognitive damage from PTSD last year, I still had a lot of bitterness and obsessive anger, every day, for months on end.

I was recently able to heal that emotional damage with an imagination technique I call The Ideal Apology.

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Here's what I did: I imagined the person who hurt me - in this case, an abusive ex-girlfriend - sitting across from me, in the greatest detail I could stably muster.

Then, I imagined her apologizing - expressing sincere remorse - for every fucked up thing she did and said.
I imagined that I told her everything. I told her all of the pain I had gone through, all of the damage she had done, the wreckage she left in my life.

I imagined her hearing it, holding space for it, accepting it, and - crucially -
taking responsibility for her part.
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Feb 11
I stopped reading the news with any regularity about 2 years ago now, and it's one of the best decisions I've ever made tbh

If something actually big happens, it breaks through and people talk about it

But lately, I feel the pull of old attachments to ideas and ideologies
I haven't been meditating as regularly lately, I've been working early and haven't noticed a major change by doing it less, so I haven't sweated it too much

I wonder if this desire to get swept up again in the dream of culture is a result of that.
There's another part of me, definitely fueled by Twitter, that wants to start writing longform again.

For me, writing flows out of passion, and when I am practicing diligently and focusing close to home, and purposefully not attaching to my passions, it makes it pretty hard.
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Jan 1
Hey, it's 2022.

Today, I'm thinking about change, about resolutions, about desire, about the reinvention of self, about integrity, shame and faith.

I wrote this thread about it, and I'd be honored if you'd read it. 🙏
After 8 years of mindfulness practice, I am still struck by how little I am capable of consciously controlling.

My mind has a small influence over my body, my body has a small influence over my environment.

My conditioning, intrinsic and extrinsic, rules my behavior.
As I go about the tasks of life, each moment pulls hidden dreams, desires and scars from my situation and my unconscious, up into swells of ego that rise, crest and fall again into negation.

I am just surfing, self after momentary self, with whatever grace & skill I can muster
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