Rise.
"Art is love in 3D. Music is love that we can hear.
I don’t care if this sounds silly or sentimental - it isn’t, because love is such a tough, scary, challenging thing. And the older I get the more certain I am that love is the deepest mystery we can explore.And we explore it though our work, through our relationships, though our attitudes, through our politics. It isn’t separate to life; it is life."
- Jeanette Winterson
She recently posted a short story entitled The Agony of Intimacy, a must-read for anyone who, like her, grew up on Greek myths. It does beat Weight.
I'm amazed at people who wonder aloud what the big fucking deal about love is. Well, think about it. If you live a life like a lot of mine, then it's just a fire drill in the morning until work, then dinner, shower, sleep, lather, rinse, repeat. That's not life. That's not living, that's breathing, and not even feeling the real power in breath. What makes you feel alive? In the words of James Cameron, "Most people waste their lives with mundane bullshit. How many people get the chance to do something extraordinary?" LIVE, for fuck's sake. Pick up bungee jumping or sky-diving if you have to, if you mind getting burns a good deal more than I do. Colton Harris-Moore stole small planes; I spin fire. Find your bliss and live it. If you don't feel alive, then what's the point of being alive in the first place?
There's also an interview with director Jane Campion, who says this:
"You can have the attention span of a pea, but when you experience loss or grief, Twitter isn’t going to help you. You will search for something meaningful. I almost think that we are designed to search for meaning, but for most people something has to trigger that search. And when you look, it’s important that there is something there to find - a poem, a novel, a film."
And right she is. Because now in this always-on, always-connected, 24/fucking/7, breakneck-speed world, people assume you have to get the hell up and move on with your life with no time to mourn. For chrissakes, this isn't Moria and you're not the Fellowship of the Ring that has to run rather than take time to mourn Gandalf. This is your. LIFE. And many psychologists, not just 30 Helens, agree that you have to let yourself feel how you feel. So feel already, and find what makes you feel the way you should feel.
I don’t care if this sounds silly or sentimental - it isn’t, because love is such a tough, scary, challenging thing. And the older I get the more certain I am that love is the deepest mystery we can explore.And we explore it though our work, through our relationships, though our attitudes, through our politics. It isn’t separate to life; it is life."
- Jeanette Winterson
She recently posted a short story entitled The Agony of Intimacy, a must-read for anyone who, like her, grew up on Greek myths. It does beat Weight.
I'm amazed at people who wonder aloud what the big fucking deal about love is. Well, think about it. If you live a life like a lot of mine, then it's just a fire drill in the morning until work, then dinner, shower, sleep, lather, rinse, repeat. That's not life. That's not living, that's breathing, and not even feeling the real power in breath. What makes you feel alive? In the words of James Cameron, "Most people waste their lives with mundane bullshit. How many people get the chance to do something extraordinary?" LIVE, for fuck's sake. Pick up bungee jumping or sky-diving if you have to, if you mind getting burns a good deal more than I do. Colton Harris-Moore stole small planes; I spin fire. Find your bliss and live it. If you don't feel alive, then what's the point of being alive in the first place?
There's also an interview with director Jane Campion, who says this:
"You can have the attention span of a pea, but when you experience loss or grief, Twitter isn’t going to help you. You will search for something meaningful. I almost think that we are designed to search for meaning, but for most people something has to trigger that search. And when you look, it’s important that there is something there to find - a poem, a novel, a film."
And right she is. Because now in this always-on, always-connected, 24/fucking/7, breakneck-speed world, people assume you have to get the hell up and move on with your life with no time to mourn. For chrissakes, this isn't Moria and you're not the Fellowship of the Ring that has to run rather than take time to mourn Gandalf. This is your. LIFE. And many psychologists, not just 30 Helens, agree that you have to let yourself feel how you feel. So feel already, and find what makes you feel the way you should feel.