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Noahie Valk
Welcome! This is where you can find my most up-to-date writings. Divided into two sections. 1) Cogito: a diary and 2) IOKTIKN: a collection of standalone essays and short stories.
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A simple realization I somehow didn't arrive at until just now: this project is self-imposed art therapy. I remember my time in therapeutic spaces—hospitalization programs, treatment centers—and how art therapy was a basic fixture:...
This one's gonna be a bit dark, so don't read further if that's not what you can handle right now. My uncle shot himself in the head a few nights ago. He took his .22 and put it just underneath his chin and pulled the trigger. The bullet...
Man, novelty sucks. I think I feel this way because whenever something new gets introduced in my life, I get so into it for a little while, and then once the dust settles, it just gets tossed into the proverbial dumpster. For me,...
Man, I really hate it when I keep making assumptions. That old saying really does end up coming true. I find that I get in my own head about every little thing most times, and the result ends up not even in a miscommunication, but really...
You know, a guy like me is prone to rumination, obviously. But over the last 24 hours or so, there hasn't been way too much of that, so I don't have a super awesome thing I want to write about off the top of my head. I never like it when...
Can someone explain TikTok algo-crafting to me? Seriously, I think it might just be an insanely massive cope for screen addiction, but at the same time it's such an easy way to stay Tapped In—so I don't know exactly how I feel about it....
Man, rationality is such a meme. I think rationality is important when you have something tangible you're dealing with, like a problem at work or figuring out what you need to say; but when it's just you, alone with nowhere to go and...
You know, David Goggins is pretty cool, all things considered. I remember in the Motivation Bro clip-sphere, there was a turn of phrase circling around that I think was coined by him and that a lot of other Motivation Bros co-opted. He...
Okay, I've gotta talk about the damn Bitcoin thing. I was out at dinner with a friend last night and he was expressing curiosity toward it. Some guy at work was raving about it and how it's the future of the economy or whatever kind of...
Being good is a privilege. I was thinking about how life has gone over the last several years, and I came to a stark realization that if my circumstances weren't as favorable as they are, I'd have done a whole lot of worse things just to...
Divine Liturgy was great today, thanks for asking. Finally I was able to receive the catechumen prayers at the liturgy today. Glory to God! Prior to today, this weekend was exhausting. Just one Olanzapine, and your boy was basically out...
You ever just feel like all you'll ever amount to is just a series of impulses that can only see life as a series of unreliable snapshots and not the full, fluid thing it actually is? Yeah, me neither. Anyway, when I got home from trivia...
I had a bit of a rocky morning, but this afternoon is turning out better. I had to take my mom to a doctor's appointment, and while I was waiting for her to finish up in the parking lot, it started to rain heavily. That's pretty normal...
I'm at a bar right now, and this is the first time I've gotten drunk in ages. I'm sitting outside on the patio with folks shooting pool next to me, and it's a disgustingly humid Texas evening in spring. It just got done raining, and it's...
Never ever kill yourself, friend. What, you think I'm just going to rehash some stupid Xitter meme from like two years ago? Shut up, man. I've been thinking about the way the world is going. Who even thinks about that these days, am I...