Molly Simpson
@spagmol
thinker, feeler, third-wheeler
collecting dots here, connecting them there ￬
Molly Simpson
spagmol.substack.com
What was the goal of experience, aside from some feminist reclamation? It was an attempt to encounter as much of the world as possible, to soak up otherness and change as much as we possibly could; part of the inadequacy of living in this pursuit was the futility of trying to escape ourselves. “We really wish to be multiple,” Greif wrote in 2005.
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To choose experience was to choose to be single when you were young, to be willing to undergo some precarity because you had to look out for yourself, to be curious about the characters you would meet and what effect they’d have on you, and to rely on your friends for solace and support. To choose happiness was to try to make a career, a marriage,
... See moreIt’s easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.
If you touch an idea too much without actually making it, just like a dough or plaster, it dies. I think it’s better to make and bake it and throw it away than to imagine how it would have worked or tasted. —Zeynab Izadyar
the people who actually move the world are not the ones preaching “action items.” they’re myth engineers.
they alter the perceptual surface everyone else stands on.
you can tell who’s operating at this layer because they never sound prescriptive. they don’t tell you what to do. they tilt the frame until you reach the conclusion yourself & think it
... See morethink about the moment you fell in love, not the garbage dating app performativity, but the real thing.
nobody instructed you:
“care for this person.”
“rewrite your routines to include them.”
“let your guard down.”
lol. if someone tried to tell you that explicitly, you’d run.
what happened instead was enchantment.
you saw something that shifted the axis
... See moreI am rooted, but I flow.
(Virginia Woolf)