i am a prototype
a practice of being a work-in-progress person
i am a prototype
Maggie Rogers - Commencement Speech - NYU Tisch School of the Arts 2025
youtube.comAs you cultivate your faith in who you are, remember: Mistakes are not proof that you’re bad at your job. False starts and dead ends are not proof that you’re a fuck up. Fear and anxiety and awkwardness are not proof that you don’t belong in the workplace, don’t belong in your friend group, don’t belong in this fucked up world. These are all proof
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you should read the word “I” as a name for a sort of collective of people that meets up in me. I try to keep that in mind all the time.
I am porous to the world, a kind of joyful sponge for the affectations and interests of the people I love. It has been the work of my life to build slightly firmer boundaries around myself so that I can figure out where I end and the people I love begin.
Christina Joyce Hauser • The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays
Walking through your own corridors of emotions, so that one day you can hold the hand of someone else as they walk through their own.
A person who doesn’t make mistakes usually doesn’t make anything.
(attributed to Mr. Phelps)
I became an archaeologist of my soul. It’s hard manual labour. It commands you to be gentle in your excavation. It asks you to investigate with curiosity and remain hopeful when it seems like all you’re digging up is more fucking dirt. There is so much power in that dirt though. Shifting it out of the way, clearing that space; eventually, it reveal
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