my witness is the empty sky

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled... Fulfillment is a function of time. The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal... It comes to and end and has to start over. The thing about working with time, instead of against it... is that it is not wasted. Every pain counts.

| Ursula K. Le Guin

To see
is to forget
the name
of
the thing
one sees.

∆ Paul Valéry

“Everything deserves a second look.”

Do you miss them sometimes? Why?

Writing became this ultimate act, the only thing that could make any regret worthwhile, any experiences exciting, all the sadness and tears tasteful. Writing became an alibi for failing and trying, an excuse to overcome and suffer again, just for the sake of writing.

To see them being happy again, at the precise moment where things collapsed for you. Remember. You never thought about it, never thought about them when you were the one on the high. It's each in turn, and you have to embrace it. Fair practices.

You can be the most perplex creature in the world and still remain unneeded because people long for simpler forms

| on pain