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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>kylerayner15's estrip.org Blog</title><link>https://estrip.org</link><description><![CDATA[kylerayner15's estrip.org journal]]></description><language>en-us</language><skipHours/><skipDays/><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><generator>Paul Visco's surebert framework RSS creator</generator><item><title>Reflections</title><link>https://estrip.org/articles/read/kylerayner15/25193/Reflections.html</link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like I am attacked more by myself than by any outside force.  I am often amazed at the destructive powers of my own psyche.  <br />
I alone am the most destructive force in my life.<br />
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My hope is to see this pattern before it attacks me and find successful ways to channel that energy into something more positive and productive.<br />
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]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2005 21:37:48 -0400</pubDate><guid>https://estrip.org/articles/read/kylerayner15/25193/Reflections.html</guid></item><item><title>Mental Squeeze</title><link>https://estrip.org/articles/read/kylerayner15/25192/Mental_Squeeze.html</link><description><![CDATA[Did you ever start to feel like you were becoming Patrick Bateman from American Psycho?<br />
Sometimes I feel like my mind is pressing down on me.  I feel like the pressures to forever be more organized, more efficient and more perfect are suffocating me.  Yet on the other hand I cannot nor do I want to necessarily change these qualities that I seek to claim while they torment, consume and control me.  <br />
What happens to that person once everything is organized, once life is at it&#039;s most optimal efficiency and once you feel (however crazy it sounds) that you are perfect.<br />
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Then what?<br />
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