The trouble with comparing yourself to others is that there are too many others. Using all others as your control group, all your worst fears and all your fondest hopes are at once true. You are good; you are bad; you are abnormal; you are just like everyone else.

| Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments

Is it by mistake or design

"I argue for a view of the self and of identity that is the opposite of the personal brand: an unstable, shapeshifting thing determined by interactions with others and with different kinds of places."

Every human being has a different way of achieving closeness, and of experiencing separation.

∆ Anaïs Nin | The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. II

What if it all is that deep?,

You cannot lose the game if you are not participating in it.

Simply, tend. To ourselves. To others. To space. To time. To ideas, both stubborn and fleeting. To the practice of living, which requires little more than our immediate senses. To uncharted or forgotten paths.