The Ministry of Time

Don’t enter believing yourself a node in a grand undertaking, that your past and your trauma will define your future, that individuals don’t matter.

I know how much you’ve longed for your future to lean down and cup your face, to whisper “Don’t worry, it gets better.” The truth is, it won’t get better if you keep making the same mistakes. It can get better, but you must allow yourself to imagine a world in which you are better.

the rhythms of loss and asylum, exodus and loneliness, roll like floods across human history.

The only thing you can mend is the future.

“Belief has very little to do with rationale. Why demand a map for uncharted territory?”

Nothing exposes the seams of a group faster than the fraught world of care.

Do you think the world changes by being asked politely? Or do you think there has to be risk?”

Ideas are frictional, factional entities which wilt when pinned to flowcharts. Ideas have to cause problems before they cause solutions.

“History is not a series of causes and effects which may be changed like switching trains on a track. It is a narrative agreement about what has happened and what is happening.