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WE ARE FROM THE START BOTH DONE AND UNDONE BY THE OTHER - AND IF WE REFUSE THIS, WE REFUSE PASSION, LIFE, AND LOSS.

We are un/done by the other
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Practicing Mediocrity
Practicing Mediocrity
Octavia Butler
Octavia Butler

the intimate texture of being is breathing: poetical rhythm (16)

breathing

Kombumerri Elder Mary Graham once wrote:
Western: what is the meaning of life? Aboriginal: what is it that wants to know?
All life has meaning, and all life has a perspective, the nuances of which cannot necessarily be known to human beings. Everyone’s view is confined by their place within the system; life does not exist in the abstract. To be a fully realised human being is therefore to exist in such a way so as to ensure that all life has the same opportunity for self-realisation.

Life does not exist in the abstract
we are all tired
we are all tired
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perhaps there had been a sad part inside of me that had secretly been judging all these couples around me because i didn’t think they were experiencing something extraordinary: crossing the world, showing up in the pouring rain, those cinematic moments that make me high off the thrill. life couldn’t always be rooftops of shopping malls, always the sun rising and the right songs, electric touch and melon drop. no — perhaps they knew something that i didn’t: that those moments come and go, ebb and flow, circle back. perhaps they knew what i didn’t: the romance is in the showing up, yes. but the love is in the staying. in looking at someone and seeing the bigger picture even if the present is not immediately gratifying. choosing someone to grow with. and could that be it? as simple as making that choice: i will go with you, let’s go together that hard way.

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