your sadness is not a virtue
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your sadness is not a virtue
Avoiding sadness can backfire, here’s how to turn towards it
Beth Kurland
Who is bestowing unto us this notion that life is supposed to be bliss and that anything less than an easy, breezy life is cause to raise the alarm?
I reject this expectation.
I reject the incessant pathologizing of the negative aspects of the human experience. Maybe you’re not depressed, maybe you’re just...sad? IT’S OK TO BE SAD. IT’S A THING... See more
I reject this expectation.
I reject the incessant pathologizing of the negative aspects of the human experience. Maybe you’re not depressed, maybe you’re just...sad? IT’S OK TO BE SAD. IT’S A THING... See more
everybody wants to do ayahuasca but nobody wants to do the dishes
What if sadness is the secret to everything?
Franny Choi • Floating, Brilliant, Gone
There’s a long, almost devotional cultural history of revering the tragic. We’ve long associated suffering with seriousness, and seriousness with truth. Thinkers in pain are taken more seriously than those who glow. Nietzsche with his migraines, his solitude, his universe of dread and will and collapse. Kafka, whispering from his tubercular... See more