Looking for a Pep Talk From the Past
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Looking for a Pep Talk From the Past
Hyde might call a Maiden Funeral a form of “active forgetting”—an intentional and respectful loosening of one’s grip on the past in favor of embracing the present. In this light, I wonder if the anxiety I experienced on my final day in London was my subconscious reckoning with the fact that I was trying to move forward by going back, by refusing to... See more
Haley Nahman • #220: When forgetting is good
Sometimes, when I’m feeling especially brutal about something I’ve done or failed to do, I imagine I’m one of my own girlfriends, someone I love and who loves me in a way that’s expansive and forgiving. Then I reassess whatever I’m being mean about, through her borrowed POV, or by way of asking – what if she’d done or failed at this thing, how woul... See more
Rachel DeWoskin Tells Us
Talking about friendship with Heather Havrilesky
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He needed to practice coming back to the self-awareness and rigor of self-care when he forgot, to work on communication with his parents and partners, and to allow himself to pursue true joy, even when it seemed scary, put him at odds with his folks, or made him an outsider for a time.
Satya Doyle Byock • Quarterlife
Tolerating Unknowns Will Make You Stronger
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