other lives
the constant battle of living life on a human scale
other lives
The fact that we are alive in this moment, out of all the moments that have ever existed, entitles us with a certain awe and obligation. As I commit to keeping going, I am saying that I don’t know how my future self will feel, and I owe it to that person to wait and see.
via Carissa Potter
artist a subtle space
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
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... See more
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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?
You are daring to imagine that you could have a different life.
(You’ve Got Mail, 1998)
Dreamy But Disconnected
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There are the different versions of ourselves, the different lives we have lived, and perhaps even more dangerous, the ones we could have lived. The ones we feel bittersweet over having not pursued, the ones we could see ourselves in, if only just a few choices had been made differently. We wonder where the assorted paths would have led, dream about the hypothetical different realities other than our current one. For me, it’s not so much FOMO as it is feeling like there’s another version of myself out there which I may have abandoned.
Of course it’s a luxury to feel this way, to be able to choose where you live, what jobs you take. But there’s also something to feeling pulled to different realities, to feeling in-between. If you don’t tend to those sides of yourself, they easily feel like they’re disintegrating—firm ground eroding beneath your feet.