Fear is a starkly felt emotion, it is not nuanced.
Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
Grief moves through the system much as love does. It seeks expression.
Homesickness is a sickness of the heart, not of the mind. It is deeply subjective and belongs, inarguably, to the sufferer alone.
How is it that words so longed for can hit and miss with equal acuity?
I press my face to the window, and I think to myself, There will never be another day like this day. This day will end. Everything passes in front of me with alarming speed, and though I recognize the splendour of the trees and the radiance of the sun, I am detached. This startles and unsettles me.
I thought again about the miracle of time, its manifest cruelty and sublime mercy.
It is only an organ, the brain, just as the heart is only an organ, and hearts will stop when they have been broken. We give full marks to the broken heart but are less tolerant of the broken mind.
It was curious to me then, as now, the power of the performer over an audience when, in fact, the gift itself springs from the writer's pen.
There is no nobility in hanging on to something that is miserable and false. We have to fight for our happiness in life.
You need to call on your best and strongest self.
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