"Fiction is strongest when it launches a moral question. When it goes out and seeks to answer. The questions that we couldn’t ask in life because the costs would be too much. Fiction and narrative art give us a vicarious opportunity to see these questions play out, at no true cost to our own." - Ocean Vuong

“To do nothing is to hold yourself still so that you can perceive what is actually there. As Gordon Hempton, an acoustic ecologist who records natural soundscapes, put it: “Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.”

― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

i kinda wanna make a mindful approach manual which would just be a guidebook containing useful advice on approaching different life areas, both things i may have read + things i have seen unfold in my own life