Self aware and yet "dumb".
« The curse of being self-aware and still committing foolish actions » Emotional intelligence, questionable decisions. There’s a certain irony in catching yourself mid-downfall - fully conscious, beautifully articulate, and still falling. I’ve always admired people who could detach, pause, analyse. The ones who say ‘’this isn’t good for me’’ and then don’t text back. But then there’s me: hyper-aware emotionally literate, able to write a whole essay on why this isn’t love… while simultaneously reapplying cologne and heading to their place. So… do we really evolve, or do we just learn how to justify the mess? That’s the new curse of our generation, isn’t it? We journal. We meditate. We dissect our trauma like it’s a thesis? We screenshot conversations and circle the red flags like it’s a true crime scene. But despite all the awareness, all the therapy-lingo and moon-phase wisdom, we still do the thing we swore we wouldn’t. We say, ‘’I deserve better’’… the...