All posts tagged: Mental Health

A person pours freshly brewed coffee from a glass carafe into a tall glass while preparing a pour-over at a café counter.

Some Things Need Tuning, Others Need Leaving

Published by Trotzendorff

There’s a cer­tain kind of sto­ry the inter­net instant­ly falls for. You know the for­mat: some­one with just enough sta­tus to sound unques­tion­able, sim­plic­i­ty, a sym­bol­ic detail like a black cof­fee, a min­i­mal­ist detail like a black cof­fee, and one sharp sen­tence deliv­ered with enough detach­ment to pass for life phi­los­o­phy: »I stopped adding sug­ar to things that were bitter.«

Person standing in front of a crashed, weathered airplane wreck on a desolate landscape.

When Failure Gets a Standing Ovation (And Why Knowing When to Quit Might Save You)

Published by Trotzendorff

The room in that unas­sum­ing, almost ugly office build­ing smelled like spilled beer and sweat. Con­crete walls, neon lights, cables run­ning along the ceil­ing, a cheap PA sys­tem hum­ming some­where in the cor­ner. Peo­ple leaned against each oth­er on fold­ing chairs, scrolling through their phones, wait­ing for the next per­son who would walk on stage and say the one thing we are all trained not to admit: »I failed.«