Nook
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Nook
When you're happy you enjoy the music but when you're sad you understand the lyrics and that is life and a nutshell. When things are good you're just moving along to the rhythm oblivious to the depth of the all. But when life gets dark when the weight of it presses, on your chest, every word, every note, suddenly becomes your story. It's no longer
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This depression is the sense that something in your life is missing even when outer things are going well.
Arnold Mindell • Dreaming While Awake
Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten?
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
Gravitas: “I care, and it’s important.” Sermons, manifestos.
Self-deprecation: “I care, but it’s not important.” Hobbies, fandoms, being nerdsniped, “merely” personal wishes.
Irreverence: “It’s important, but I don’t care.” Edgy jokes, shitposts, grifts, procrastination.
Disdain: “It’s not important and I don’t care.” Actual indifference/silence; hips... See more
Self-deprecation: “I care, but it’s not important.” Hobbies, fandoms, being nerdsniped, “merely” personal wishes.
Irreverence: “It’s important, but I don’t care.” Edgy jokes, shitposts, grifts, procrastination.
Disdain: “It’s not important and I don’t care.” Actual indifference/silence; hips... See more
Sarah Constantin • Sarah Constantin (@sarahconstantin)
I love how books get thicker after we read them.
As if somewhere between the pages, we left little pieces of ourselves.
Selenesubstack.comThe reason why we create anything is because we love it enough to see it exist.
