I don’t take pleasures in the failures of my past self.

 I so keenly feel the connection and emotions to these previous iterations that even someone saying a compliment to a current self, the implied improvement only makes me feel empathy for old, lesser me. 

Street Art | Off Book | PBS (by PBS)

Typography | Off Book | PBS (by PBS)

"It was 5AM when we eventually made it to our stop-off, a cave high in the hills that the FSA use as an operations centre. Walking in, we were hit by a cloud of shisha smoke, and there, in a circle, danced a dozen heavily armed, bearded men, clapping and singing like this was the hottest new club in the region. There were some ratty gilded sofas in one corner, RPG’s and grenades lying around randomly and a little television showing a sort of mash-up of the atrocities that had been committed that day. As we entered, we became the latest attraction."

My Four Days of Madness with the Free Syrian Army | VICE