i hope you delight in mystery
on incomprehensibility and resisting the need to be understood
i hope you delight in mystery
When your whole life is changing, it’s normal to have lots of ideas about what you might do. Rapid attention shifts are typical of liminal periods. Now is the time to play with these ideas, not to lock yourself into ironclad plans. Wait until an idea has felt right for a number of days or weeks before you commit to making it a part of your new life
... See moreMartha Beck • Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
And maybe that’s part of the problem, trying to be legible to everyone. The tug of war of wanting to water things down for mass adoption versus building something I want for myself and trusting the others will come.
sari azout • Making Sublime
"But maybe you don’t need to be explainable. Maybe the most interesting perspectives come from being willing to occupy a difficult-to-define place, even if it means sacrificing others' understanding of you. The challenge then becomes committing to occupy that place far longer than most feel comfortable — long enough to cultivate a voice out of your... See more
So, how to wrap my arms around this term in a way that captures its spirit without flattening it?
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
I have been thinking about it a lot lately: do we owe people comprehensibility, legibility, concreteness? May I claim the right to be intangible?
Clarifying often feels like moving further from the initial meaning. For some things, there is no exactness, no solid answer that can be shaped into what they want.
On the right to be incomprehensible
I’m most drawn to what I call think-y woman books : books by or about women who are introspective, resistant and gloriously uninterested in being easily understood.