ecstacy is all you need...
"Love and sex and loneliness
Take what’s yours and leave the rest
So I’ll survive
God it’s good to be alive..."
i can't exactly explain why but this ^ feels particularly relevant......
i can't decide if this is angsty or not. i don't think it is. i think its that i'm feeling good about my life for the first time in a while. in spite of all my weird relationships to love and sex and loneliness right now. or maybe because of them?
maybe i'll get more into this later, but i'm reading the unbearable lightness of being (by milan kundera) again. i started reading it right after andres and i broke up but never finished it.... but i feel like i found it at a really pertinent time in my life. a lot of the things he says about relationships felt very valid and true to me at the time, and helped me gain a lot of perspective. and reading it again (i'm almost finished) he has some really interesting thoughts about sex and our perceptions of ourselves through it.... as two people or souls that connect through sex, but also as distinctly physical entities - bodies void of souls, and the power and seductiveness of this sort of unattached casual sex. kundera definitely does a good job of romanticizing it, but coming from someone who is just sort of rediscovering this power, it really resonates.
i think the best kinds of books are ones that you can read over and over again, and discover new things about them and about yourself each time. maybe its just because this book is particularly relevant to what's going on in my life, but i've found that kundera really has a knack for stating things in such a way that really makes you think about your own life and how what he's saying applies.
and while i'm advertising... the book of laughter and forgetting (also by kundera) does much of the same thing. it also brings up a lot of interesting ideas about relationships.
in both these books he offers (at least to me) new ways of thinking about the same stuff, and in a way that can be very enlightening.
Take what’s yours and leave the rest
So I’ll survive
God it’s good to be alive..."
i can't exactly explain why but this ^ feels particularly relevant......
i can't decide if this is angsty or not. i don't think it is. i think its that i'm feeling good about my life for the first time in a while. in spite of all my weird relationships to love and sex and loneliness right now. or maybe because of them?
maybe i'll get more into this later, but i'm reading the unbearable lightness of being (by milan kundera) again. i started reading it right after andres and i broke up but never finished it.... but i feel like i found it at a really pertinent time in my life. a lot of the things he says about relationships felt very valid and true to me at the time, and helped me gain a lot of perspective. and reading it again (i'm almost finished) he has some really interesting thoughts about sex and our perceptions of ourselves through it.... as two people or souls that connect through sex, but also as distinctly physical entities - bodies void of souls, and the power and seductiveness of this sort of unattached casual sex. kundera definitely does a good job of romanticizing it, but coming from someone who is just sort of rediscovering this power, it really resonates.
i think the best kinds of books are ones that you can read over and over again, and discover new things about them and about yourself each time. maybe its just because this book is particularly relevant to what's going on in my life, but i've found that kundera really has a knack for stating things in such a way that really makes you think about your own life and how what he's saying applies.
and while i'm advertising... the book of laughter and forgetting (also by kundera) does much of the same thing. it also brings up a lot of interesting ideas about relationships.
in both these books he offers (at least to me) new ways of thinking about the same stuff, and in a way that can be very enlightening.