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Category: Doug Cooper

All that remains is to forge the #commitment. Regardless of how right everything feels, words never last.

commitment, identity, outside-in, words-never-last

Rationalization is foreplay with one’s conscience.

conscience, foreplay, identity, outside-in, rationalization

Word has traveled quickly that just because you’re on island doesn’t mean you have to be stranded—as long as you have cash.

cash, identity, islands, outside-in, stranded

There’s nothing like an orgasm to make a person think–and more often than not, to think too much.

identity, orgasms, outside-in, thinking-too-much

There’s nothing like an orgasm to force a person to think–and more often than not, to think too much.

identity, orgasm, outside-in, thinking-too-much

Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I’m paying attention to what I have rather than what’s missing.

focus, freedom, hope, identity, outside-in, paying-attention

When compared side by side, my days can barely be distinguished from one another. The only difference is what I do after work and with whom I do it.

boredom, identity, monotony, outside-in

I’m like a fish in a pool, turning quickly to avoid what challenges it. My only decision is whether to go right or left to sidestep confrontation.

avoidance, confrontation, decisions, identity, outside-in

Variety may be the spice of life, but consistency pays the bills.

consistency, identity, outside-in, spice-of-life, variety

My discontent has accumulated over the past months, searching for a leak in the dam I’ve constructed to separate my true feelings from the situation closing in around me.

closing-in, discontent, identity, outside-in, searching, true-feelings

Even the best buzz wears off, and you wake up more trapped than the day before.

buzz, identity, outside-in, trapped, wake-up

I never get used to the faces–wide-eyed and full of possibility–staring bad at me.

faces, identity, outside-in, possibility, staring