Be Careful What You Settle For

Because maybe that’s what you actually wanted all along

Sometimes the bottle is just empty. Photo by Souro Souvik on Unsplash

I have a pattern of self-sabotage, the kind of impulsive self-sabotage that hope tricks you into. Hope has always precipitated some kind of emotional spiral, making me find logic and reason in whatever dumb idea is currently rattling about in my brain. It leads me to carry through with that dumb decision even though I…