An authentic life
Substack • if we're lucky, we never become 'good' humans
It was the friendships that I was holding onto out of guilt, not out of love. It was the dreams I clung to like they were my lifeline, even when they no longer brought me joy. And it was the constant, relentless feeling of being tired! Tired of pretending, tired of giving, tired of convincing myself that things would get better if I just kept trying. If I just kept pushing. But later, I realized that pushing when you’re already broken only makes the cracks deeper. You don’t get stronger from pushing things that aren’t meant for you. You just get more tired. You just get more lost.
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
“So many of these thoughts and feelings live in our heads, which is not a great place for them to live. They need to come out somewhere. Once you can put them somewhere, you feel like you’re free.”
Emma Watson

Substack • The Mirror of Judgment
“By telling them just how to do it, I took the playing around away. The gradual figuring out that brings something alive to the activity makes it worthwhile and makes it transferable to other activities.”