The Wisdom of Dogs, Kids & Fairy Bread with Liana Finck
like many serious young men—he wanted to be regarded as important, meaningful, heavy. He wanted his work to be better than other people’s work. He wanted to be complex and intense. There was anguish, there was torment, there was drinking, there were dark nights of the soul. He was lost in the cult of artistic suffering, but he called that suffering
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It has always been the same for me inside, although others insist “I’ve changed” or “I’ve grown.”
I am still me. Maybe I’m trying to be too profound.
Of course I’ve changed from the girl I was, but I resist that story because it suggests a linear arc, a hero’s journey, where success is measured by our ability to shed our selfishness and innocence and
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