does my melancholy serve you?
I am so, deeply, truly uninterested in reaction (which is why I don’t read the comments on my public Instagram account). But I am so curious about response: the mysterious sacred moments when we are compelled into action (often unwitnessed by others) or invited into new ways of thinking.
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Mari Andrew • A Life Without Instagram
sometimes, i miss not having to explain my moods. i miss the parts of myself that didn’t need to be named, analyzed, journaled. i miss crying without categorizing it. i miss sadness that just existed, without needing to be rewritten into a growth arc. i miss the version of myself who didn’t feel like her inner life had to be coherent to be real.
... See moreModern society’s mania is to emphasize buoyancy and cheerfulness. It wishes either to medicalize melancholy states – and therefore ‘solve’ them – or to deny their legitimacy altogether. Yet melancholy springs from a rightful awareness of the tragic structure of every life. We can, in melancholy states, understand without fury or sentimentality that
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