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Researching myself into Being
by Rithika Pandey
273 blocks • 1 day ago
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yearning, longing, desire
by aurum que
79 blocks • 2 months ago

I want so much that is not here and I do not know where to go.
— Charles Bukowski

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We treat desire as a problem to be solved... and focus on how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the distance between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing. I wonder sometimes whether with a slight adjustment of perspective it could be cherished as a sensation on its own terms, since it is as inherent to the human condition as blue is to distance? If you can look across the distance without wanting to close it up, if you can own your longing in the same way that you own the beauty of that blue that can never be possessed? For something of this longing will, like the blue of distance, only be relocated, not assuaged, by acquisition and arrival, just as the mountains cease to be blue when you arrive among them and the blue instead tints the next beyond.

| Rebecca Solnit

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