Zoë

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

― Simone Weil

Kierkegaard once described despair as the moment when the self becomes “misrelated” to itself—when one is not willing to be oneself, or willing to be oneself wrongly. In The Sickness Unto Death , he writes how despair is not just emotional, but structural. And for many creative people, the misrelation causing despair occurs when you can see... See more

You can’t choose to be mysterious just by withholding facts about yourself. Mystery is a byproduct of depth, and depth is built slowly through what you feed your mind and notice in the world. It’s not about saying something impressive, it’s about becoming someone worth listening to, even in silence.