Sublime

In some ways, the distinction between normalcy and pathology is arbitrarily defined—as well as hard to measure.

a lived experience that in some ways resists description,

To the degree that my quest had an object, that object turned out to be learning to live with uncertainty and incapacity.

One self disappeared, and a new, more dependent self emerged.

To be sick in this way is to have the unpleasant feeling that you are impersonating yourself. When you’re sick, the act of living is more act than living.