Richness

I can move through pain, but I have an intolerance for a life that doesn’t sparkle.

I am sensitive, finely attuned, and as soon as I experience suffering, I have to pivot. I have no ability to stick it out. A quitter, you might call me. Undisciplined, Lazy, Child like, Weak, You might call me.

I certainly called myself those things.

I now realise that my intolerance for suffering is one of my greatest gifts.

I watch people who have a... See more

i love the "never kill yourself" genre bc it captures the slippery truth that the distance between a life worth living and wanting to die really is, like, one minor amusement a day that's why it's imperative to go outside and look at things and try to like them

The yearning to feel capable and in control shows up all over contemporary culture. We see it in the growth of cooking classes and of mixed martial arts, of weight lifting and craft hobbies, even blacksmithing. ‘It’s all things that make us use our hands, make us use tools, make us master something that seems beyond us at first’, Elizabeth Kronfiel... See more

“But,” I said, “when I see my work I take for granted what other people value in it. I see only its ineptitude, inorganic flaws, and crudities. I am not pleased or satisfied.”

“No artist is pleased.”

“But then there is no satisfaction?”

“No satisfaction whatever at any time,” she cried out passionately. “There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a... See more