On Hannah Arendt's birthday, link in profile for her timeless meditation on love and how to live with the fundamental fear of loss. (If you crave something more substantive than Instagram, try the weekly Marginalian newsletter, free and ad-free 18 years running: themarginalian.org/newsletter)
On Hannah Arendt's birthday, link in profile for her timeless meditation on love and how to live with the fundamental fear of loss. (If you crave something more substantive than Instagram, try the weekly Marginalian newsletter, free and ad-free 18 years running: themarginalian.org/newsletter)
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“Hecato says, ‘cease to hope and you will cease to fear.’ … The primary cause of both these ills is that instead of adapting ourselves to present circumstances we send out thoughts too far ahead.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 5.7b–8
you and your beloved did not believe that your lives were finite, neither one of you could take your lives to be at stake and there would be no urgency to do anything with your time. You could never care for yourselves, for one another, or for the commitment that you share, since you would have no sense of fragility. By the same token, you could fe
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