I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when y… - Chuck Palahniuk

Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.

Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow.

Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.

The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight.

The camera obscura.

Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.