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how to avoid half-heartedness
- What I write is all mine, it’s a living thing, it’s an extension of me that wanders out into the world. It is desire turned inwards instead of outwards, focused instead of displaced.
from how to avoid half-heartedness by Ava
Zach Kirshner added 2mo ago
- Briana West: “You want [love] to provide for you what you think you cannot give yourself: stability, security, hope, happiness. So long as you function on this belief, you place “love” as being something that is outside of you when the reality is that you cannot see, create, or experience on the outside what you are not already.”
from how to avoid half-heartedness by Ava
Zach Kirshner added 2mo ago
- I think that people come alive when they’re serious about what they love—when they choose to pay careful attention to what feeds and sustains them. I love this one Heather Havrilesky line about how crushes are often just misplaced ambition. Of course crushes are more than that—they’re about nostalgia and magic and futures we’ll never access—but I t... See more
from how to avoid half-heartedness by Ava
Zach Kirshner added 2mo ago
- What I write is all mine, it’s a living thing, it’s an extension of me that wanders out into the world. It is desire turned inwards instead of outwards, focused instead of displaced. It’s a way to access self-knowledge and self-respect.
from how to avoid half-heartedness by Ava
Agalia Tan added 2mo ago