I recently experimented with a new personality but I decided I liked the older me better.  🙂

I often go back to this quote I read 15 years ago in Death by Music by Rukun Advani:

“It was that oscillation between feeling traumatically low and excitedly high that sank me in gloom, making me sceptical about living out life with an emotional gas regulator, always checking on how much feeling to let flow, how high to keep the flame without burning other people or burning out, how much of myself to express without feeling vulnerable, exposed, misunderstood.”

After unsuccessfully trying to regulate myself for the last few years, I’ve decided to give up and let myself feel vulnerable, exposed, misunderstood.