"this is water, this is water."

[ununoriginal]

maybe it's cuz i've nearly made it to 30, and with each passing day, feel it even more keenly - every word is painfully depressing, heartbreakingly hopeful, cathartic, true.

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David Foster Wallace, who died last week, was the most brilliant American writer of his generation. In a speech, published here for the first time, he reflects on the

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[nyw]

Oh god. This speaks so much to me. I've come to a stage in my life where the ground is shifting violently from beneath me and I am feeling so out of my depth all the time. I can only imagine how you feel. And I hope that every year, whether or not I am feeling lost or if I am lost and I do not know it, I will have the good fortune to stumble upon something like this to set me right again.

[ununoriginal]

words like these really help with one's perspective, which, not to be a wet blanket, u will need all the more once u begin working life, cuz tat's when u realise tat like 85% of wat u learnt in school was really jus all academic :p

wat resonated with me the most was how he acknowledged it wasn't easy, tat even the most firm believers will have times when they get swayed - i think it's important to recognise tat, admit tat we are all weak at times, pick up from there and move on :)

[ezyls_girl]

Feeling the vertigo. There's such a long way to go for me. And this is probably a really stupid thing to say, but Please stay young at heart!

=)