Some things I know and you can't tell me different:

Everyone has something unique and amazing about them. Everyone.

Most people will never discover that thing or will be made to feel bad about it by others that are jealous that haven't discovered their own unique and amazing thing.

Some people’s amazing and unique thing is to harm others and make them feel bad.

Drug addicts that never get help will always choose drugs first.

You are most likely not made of drugs, so you will never be happy if you love a drug addict.

Lonely people eat a lot of pizza.

Eating pizza alone just makes it worse.

If you’re lonely and lactose intolerant, you have a problem.

Karma is not a bitch. Life's a bitch sometimes, and sometimes it is not. It is completely arbitrary. If karma was a real thing there wouldn’t be so many horrible people living perfectly fine, happy lives. They would all be struck down by karma.

The thing we confuse for karma is that many horrible people do lead miserable lives and sometimes fuck themselves over, but that is their own doing. They sometimes go to jail, or the people they love leave them, or they end up alone and hated, but that is not some mystical force, it is just people’s shitty behavior biting them in the ass. Just as many really good people are miserable too. Why isn’t karma helping them?

“Karma’s a bitch” is probably about as far away as the original concept of karma as you can get. “Karma’s a bitch” is just another lame Americanization of some other culture, like the croissan’wich.

There are no moral absolutes. I mean there are, but I don’t think you can adhere to any of them and survive in the world.

I still try to maintain moral absolutes, and I have a real hard time surviving in the world.

Many people that should have a higher opinion of themselves do not.

Many people that should not have such a high opinion of themselves do.

Some of the things I know are merely my opinion, not necessarily facts, and your opinions may vary. I realize this.

Many people do not realize that their opinions are not facts, and that is where most of us get into trouble. Many people’s opinions are not even their own opinions, they are just too lazy or easily manipulated into adopting other people’s opinions that go against who they really are.

A lot of people hate an awful lot of other people and things.

Most of the time when people hate things they are just jealous, or frustrated, or hurt and lashing out.

I don’t always have time to figure out everyone’s motive for their shitty behavior or the patience to try to help them get past it, and I’m sorry for that. Sadly, there are plenty of other people that should be picking up the slack on that front, but they can’t be bothered, and would rather chastise instead of listen. I’m trying my best, but I’m only one person.

I wish I could heal the world. I wish I could make everything better for everyone dealing with a lot of shit that they really shouldn’t have to deal with. It weighs heavily on me and it breaks my heart a million times a day.

I know that I can’t, because some of the world doesn’t even realize that they are broken. I can’t because even a lot of the broken people that know they are broken don’t want to face it and help themselves, so I just have to keep trying while I watch them flounder and punish themselves. It weighs heavily on me and it breaks my heart a million times a day.

I know that it is my own fault, and my own choice to take on these burdens and that most likely there will be no reward and no happy outcome, but I would rather live with the broken heart and know that I tried than to just abandon humanity and give up.

Knowing yourself makes it a lot easier to live with your actions, even if they are killing you. Knowing yourself helps, but it isn’t a cure all for everything and it often leads to more misery, but at least you know why you’re doing it. This is known as “small consolation”, but sometimes it’s the best you can hope for.

I have found that I have pretty much been able to do anything I set out to do.

Part of the secret of being able to accomplish anything you set out to do is knowing what you are capable of in the first place.

You will only know what you are capable of if you step out into the unknown sometimes and take a chance and fail.

Do not limit yourself to only doing things you are sure you will succeed at. See how weird life really is?

We are all luckier than we could ever imagine.

Knowing that, we still feel that we are all unlucky.

One of the biggest hindrances to the happiness of the human race is that we all keep things secret that everyone feels and none of us talk about. We bottle it all up and think that we are the only ones that feel a certain way or deal with certain horrors. We think that no one could love us if they knew the awful things we think and we’ve done, but we all think and do them and only by sharing this knowledge with friends and strangers alike will we ever learn to truly love and trust each other.

I will never stop writing this stuff and spilling myself all over the page because I know that it brings some small amount of comfort and solace to others, and that makes it so worthwhile. All the heartbreak and all the pain I feel is balanced by the fact that I open myself up to the world, and sometimes people open up to me and we talk and cry and share our secrets. You should try it. The reward is that there are quite a few people that tell me that I am the only one like me that they have in their lives. They cherish me, and I cherish them right back. It is worth it every single time.

If you don’t use the word “cherish” to describe anyone or anything in your life, you are really missing out. I am the luckiest person alive because I use that word to describe so many people and things that I can’t even keep track.

I still feel unlucky ....