Between Plath and Didion: the most important lesson I learned in my twenties
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Between Plath and Didion: the most important lesson I learned in my twenties
Still, this rubric of adult goals—the smooth development of stability in Quarterlife then the search for meaning in midlife—has long dominated our understanding of adulthood. Like many other long-held cultural beliefs, it begs for reconsideration.
Satya Doyle Byock • Quarterlife
Poet and novelist Sylvia Plath reminds us that choosing a path means ignoring the rest, but not choosing means squandering them all:
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and child... See more
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and child... See more
James Clear • 3-2-1: On being yourself, how to say no, and using boredom as a filter
Life is modular, not linear. You don't choose a career at twenty-two and stick with it for forty years like some kind of professional arranged marriage. Instead of hunting for the mythical perfect tree, follow your curiosity. What ideas make you pause while scrolling? What conversations do you find yourself returning to days later? When a friend me... See more