Kelly Tang

James Baldwin once wrote, “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”

A psychologically rich life is a life filled with diverse, unusual, interesting experiences that change your perspective; a life with twists and turns; a dramatic, eventful life instead of a simple and straightforward one; a life with multiplicity and complexity; a life with lots of stops, detours, and turning points; a life that feels like a long,

We are steeped in the normalized myth that we are, each of us, mere individuals striving to attain private goals.

The more we define ourselves that way, the more estranged we become from vital aspects of who we are and what we need to be healthy

Gabor Mate, The Myth to Be Normal 

The best thoughts cannot be said, the second best thoughts can only be misinterpreted. - Bert Hellinger

Standing in front of all my stuff, it hit me that all of it used to be money, and all of that used to be time. I was standing in front of the metabolic waste of my existence, materialized. I was looking at the amount of my time, therefore my life, that had been turned into garbage. And the worst part is that I could’ve prevented it.

This is the

philosopher Descartes said “happiness does not consist in acquiring the things we think will make us happy, but in learning to like doing the things we have to do anyway.“