Twice in my life I have had the following dream: It is the final evening of my senior year of college, and I am on campus. The following morning, I will graduate and then leave campus for good. That evening, I meet and sleep with a female student. She is one year younger than I… Continue reading The dream-visitation
Tag: Parallel universes
Death of the projected self
As the gap grows between the self you are and the self you thought you would be, Your envisioned self dies the death of a million cuts, Like a drawing incrementally erased from a white board. You are strong where he is weak, Grieving where he is alight with fancy, Alive where he is dead,… Continue reading Death of the projected self
Impostor syndrome as spiritual dilemma
Probably as many as 70% of graduate students suffer from impostor syndrome, and I am one. According to a cursory internet search, impostor syndrome is a “psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a ‘fraud.’” For me, this fear centers almost entirely around… Continue reading Impostor syndrome as spiritual dilemma
Jackson Holzberg Buckley 