Hungerstone

by Kat Dunn

This is the bargain I have struck: to lose my softness in exchange for survival.

cannot master the world and hope to fix everything in its place. This cannot bring fulfillment. All we can hope for in life is to know one’s own desires in order to be able to act on them. To want is to surrender to uncertainty. To step into the unknown. To expose ourselves to all possible outcomes and trust we will not be destroyed by disappointment. Oh, how powerful that fear has been.