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)
instagram.comyou 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
... See moreLiving in fear of one’s relationships falling apart is an unfree way to live, in which one is living for other people.
The certainty that nothing can happen to us that does not in our innermost being belong to us is the foundation of fearlessness.
“tudo o que buscamos só pode ser encontrado no presente”
Life is continuously changing, and if you’re trying to control it, you’ll never be able to fully live it. Instead of living life, you’ll be afraid of life.