Alex

Love is a form of unilateral disarmament: an instinctual willingness for vulnerability that overwhelms our surface defences and at the same time, rids us in a frightening way, of the need for defences at all: love is frightening, exactly because it overwhelms and disarms us, takes us apart and strangely, simplifies us into something more real, more... See more

Vorfreude means “the pleasure of anticipation.” I learned it from Jono Hey’s excellent Sketchplanations newsletter. “The magic of vorfreude lies in how it stretches out the pleasure of any upcoming event or experience,” writes Jono. “Once I hit 'Confirm' to book a trip, it kicks off joy for months whenever I think about the trip.” — MF