Bronwyn

About half of my friends kind of hate their jobs, so they're moderately unhappy most of the time, but never unhappy enough to leave. This is the mediocrity trap : situations that are bad-but-not-too-bad keep you forever in their orbit because they never inspire the frustration it takes to achieve escape velocity.

The mediocrity trap is a nasty way t... See more

We've made "work" synonymous with suffering, when it should be synonymous with building.

They've still got their morning paper and their coffee and their time

And they still enjoy their evenings with the skeptics and the wine

But all the wonders I have seen, I will see a second time

From inside of the ages through your eyes

Mothers have martyred themselves in their children’s names since the beginning of time. We have lived as if she who disappears the most, loves the most. We have been conditioned to prove our love by slowly ceasing to exist... What a terrible burden for children to bear—to know that they are the reason their mother stopped living. What a terrible bu... See more