What Will Happen If I Stop Moving Forward?

Staying busy all the time is an escape from dealing with unpleasant and difficult emotions

Ryan Fan
Published in
7 min readApr 8, 2024

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There’s a funny story I often tell about my grandfather in his 80s. He’s the grandparent who cannot sit still and needs to be active at all times, or else he gets borderline depressed.

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Ryan Fan
Invisible Illness

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