When thoughts scatter
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Last published Sun, Jun 28, 2026
Patience is virtue. Patience and perseverance is truth. Yet one can possess either, or none-never both.
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32 year old Kataleya Saalfeld is an alcoholic. A successful one. She needs help, and she knows it.
Sleep paralysis, insomina, hallucinations...all have plagued her since her high school days.
Yet, perhaps the answer to her problem, she begins to realise, does not lie in her mind, but the cause-the why of what started this.
But is what she feels even real? Or are her thoughts scattering?
Patience might not be a strong suit, yet observation will always trump.
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