Forget You Exist
I’ve largely discontinued my previous practice of linking to every little thing that I see on the internet that is interesting. I’ve done this because I find the most satisfying posts that I go back and read are the ones where I talk about how I feel and what’s going on, not the posts where I link to the latest article I’ve read. After all, one would rather know the person that all that reading and thinking produced, and not necessarily all the reading and thinking that person did.
I’ll make an exception for this piece, called Die on Purpose, because it gets at important truths:
I think it’s really helpful to forget you exist, and often.
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Wherever I am, whatever location I am in, I picture the situation exactly as it would be if I wasn’t there. I just watch it like it’s a movie, and the people still in the scene are the actors.
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There is no sufferer, so there is no suffering. Curiously, beauty survives.
Curiously, beauty survives.