Remember: Comparison is the thief of joy. No matter how high you climb, it’s always easy to worry about who has climbed higher, or if you are climbing fast enough.
I keep this quote on my writing desk and stare at it every day to remind myself never to compete against anyone except myself. There will always be someone better, and there will always be someone else who believes that I am better than they are. It doesn’t matter a whit—what matters is your heart and your drive. And nothing else.
Lisa Amowitz is the author of fantasy/thrillers for young adults, including Until Beth. She is also a cover designer and a professor of Graphic Design at Bronx Community College.
Writer’s Care Packages from Camp NaNoWriMo and We Need Diverse Books.
okay so theres an episode of whats new scooby doo where the gang goes home on valentines day, and i guess the studio really wanted to avoid the implication that daphne and fred were sleeping together because daphne and velma live together and fred lives with shaggy and scooby
but that attempt at avoiding anything risque backfired spectacularly because now it just seems like daphne and velma are a comfortably domestic couple and fred is trying to learn how to live with his boyfriends over excitable and really hungry great dane
It’s far cuter like this anyway.
OOOOOOOOOOOOH SNAP
CANON