mind wanderings

Nostalgia gets a bad rap. It is often characterized as an unproductive fixation on an idealized past, one that prevents people from living in the present and planning for the future.

In reality, though, nostalgia helps people thrive in the present and build a better future.

IT'S SPELLED BEAUTIFUL, NOT INTERESTING

i think the worst thing that can be said about a work is that it is interesting. i don’t mean in any sarcastic or demeaning or sardonic manner either. i mean interesting, sincerely stated. i’ve only ever wanted to make beautiful work and to hear that a work is interesting means to me that the work is not beaut

i am lying on freshly changed hotel bed sheets and i’m listening to raindrops outside.

what loneliness feels like?

(found some descriptions on reddit)

• “It feels like waiting for something but it never comes”

• “It feels like you are yearning for someone. Like you are waiting and waiting for them but they don’t come”

• “feels like that empty heavy s

we went to nice cafe near the village this afternoon.

i saw a little kid holding a bundle of leaves in his right hand. he was full of joy, probably from holding his little treasure.

i was looking at him with a warm joyful feeling on my chest. isn’t it beautiful how a child is capable of being happy from small - but not really small things?

they are ha

far away

i woke up early this morning, made myself breakfast and a cup of coffee.

then i sat on the stairs outside the house, watching the sky and listening to the birds sing.

as i sat there, eating slowly, i found myself thinking about a quiet life in the countryside—far away from people, traffic, and all the noise.

and honestly… i think i’d love that

Seems like, street lights, glowing happen to be

Just like moments, passing, in front of me

So I hopped in, the cab and I paid my fare

See I know my destination, but I’m just not there

“The self” doesn’t exist. Instead, you constantly shape multiple selves

“Explain the entire chain of So what’s”

“So what? Why should people care about your new idea?”

Probably because it accomplishes useful, which the presenter should explain. This part is generally obvious.

Unfortunately, the explanation often sounds like this: So if we do hocus-pocus, this function will now be whizbammable! Then the presenter looks arou

...There's a paradox: for the more we engage these remarkable tools, the less available we are for any actual contact outside the purely human estate. In truth, the more we participate with these astonishing technologies, the more we seal ourselves into an exclusively human cocoon, and the more our animal senses—themselves co-evolved with the winds