Today I started thinking about the world and how much there is to it. And the thought of wanting to absorb so much, to know what other people know, about language, history, culture, but at the centre of all that, people and their experiences, big and small - it made my head hurt.
And I wish I was someone people could call clever or knowledgable or insightful, but I don’t know if I’ll live long enough to learn to be that, or whether it can be learnt at all.
It’s given me a restless anxiety that I don’t know how to rectify because even thinking of all the ways to learn is stressful.
This makes me happy.


