On Purpose and Agency
there’s a specific kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too much, but from thinking too much while doing very little.
milk and cookies • a guide to emotional hygiene for overthinkers
“To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.”
-Simone Weil, “Gravity&Grace”
Man, sometimes it takes a long time to sound like yourself.
-Miles Davis
As Viktor Frankl wrote in Man’s Search for Meaning, purpose is often born from responsibility to someone or something beyond ourselves. It is not just introspective; it is connective. He writes, “The more one forgets hinself, by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love, the more human he is.”