other lives
the constant battle of living life on a human scale
other lives
You could theoretically change your life at any moment. Move here, date that person, work on that startup, write that blog, dye your hair, adopt a dog. Should I stay, should I go? I don’t know if this agency is freedom or burden. Perhaps all the best things are both.
Nixtwitter.comAs I make hundreds of small choices throughout the day, I’m building a life—but at one and the same time, I’m closing off the possibility of countless others, forever.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
So, even though you have broken my heart yet again, I wanted to say, in another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you.
(Everything Everywhere All At Once)
If grief is love with nowhere to go, I am full of it. Still, I am not sure I want to have a child. My downfall is that I want to live all lives in one, and soon I have to choose one.
via METAXU
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
Sylvia Plath
One time my friend Matt called me and started telling me in detail about a venture to the grocery store - he had just gone in for almond milk, and left with 20 other things, knocked something over, ran into someone he knew, and also left without getting almond milk. Then he said, “Oh god this is the most boring story in the world - basically what I... See more
instagram.comIntimacy is knowing about the almond milk
Look at all the good around you. Of all the lives you could have lived, how wonderful and special is it that you get to live this one?
It’s hard when you are in one place and you want to be in another. It’s hard and it’s the human condition. It’s hard when other people get what you want and you see only glimpses and you feel jealous and angry and like they don’t deserve it or they’ve forgotten you or forgotten what it feels like, how bad it feels, to be where you are. And sometime
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