Liya Jin
@liyajin
Liya Jin
That is all we have, this moment with the world. It will not last, because nothing lasts. Entropy, mortality, extinction: the entire plan of the universe consists of losing, and no matter how much we find along the way, life amounts to a reverse savings account in which we are eventually robbed of everything. Our dreams and plans and jobs and knees... See more
Maria Popova • Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All
Storytelling, like ecosystems, needs diversity to thrive.
My body … in constant negotiation with the bodies of the world beyond me, at the shifting edges where my skin bleeds into others
We create ourselves. The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change
psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis wrote in his 1973 field guide to how people change
Who will I become.LA Paul
Explores transformative experiences in life and decision-making, emphasizing the challenges of imagining future selves and the epistemic and personal changes that accompany significant life choices, particularly the choice to become a parent.
Linkholy fucking shit. everyone need to read this.
in decision-making for transformational experiences, the “epistemic wall” created by the massive change creates (1) unknown subjective value problem, and (2) the self-alienation problem (with present vs future self).
“The trouble with human happiness is that it is constantly beset by fear,” Hannah Arendt wrote in her incisive Augustine-lensed meditation on love and loss, and nowhere is our happiness more beset by fear than in our fear of change.
“Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing."
-Rebecca Solnit