Something better isn’t somewhere else

Something better isn’t somewhere else

What’s it like to be alive?⁣To be deeply, fully alive?⁣⁣I used to think it was a state of bliss.⁣Eternal gratitude and quiet joy. ⁣Or something like it.⁣⁣And sometimes, it can be like that.⁣And then it passes.⁣Another seeing, ⁣Another hearing,⁣Another experience takes...
It solved itself. (As always.)

It solved itself. (As always.)

A tiny piece of toothpick snapped off—right where I couldn’t reach it. Shit. I tried to get it out, but it didn’t budge. My mind instantly, automatically,  went to worst case scenarios. What if it never got out? What if it somehow wriggled its way into my...