Hannah Johnson
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Hannah Johnson
Becoming is better than being
Dr Carol Dweck • Mindset
the illness was not just my own; the silence around suffering was our society’s pathology.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
People think freedom is the power to change what you dislike about the world around you.
You can quit a job you hate. Leave a person who hurts you. Switch cities for a change of scenery. Chop your hair for a new look.
What freedom actually is: the power to change what you dislike about yourself.
Julie Zhuo • The Looking Glass: Prioritize until it hurts
Zhou et al. (2020) found that microfibre concentration in an industrial textile facility in China could reach 54,100 microfibres L−1, and even with a removal of 85% in wastewater treatment, release in effluent could still reach 430 billion microfibres per day, with most fibres measuring between 100 and 300 μm.
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To become chronically ill is not only to have a disease that you have to manage, but to have a new story about yourself, a story that many people refuse to hear—because it is deeply unsatisfying, full of fits and starts, anger, resentment, chasms of unruly need.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
“Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.” - Steven Pressfield
You cannot muscle your way to health when you are chronically ill. Rather, one way of coming to terms with an amorphous systemic disease is recognizing that you are sick, that the illness will come and go, and that it is not the kind of illness you can conquer.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
For instance, in the US, textiles account for 4.5% of the total Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in landfills (World Trade Statistical Review, 2018).