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Every life has a moment like this, a trauma that breaks you into brand-new pieces.
The flip side of being a person who never fails at anything is that you never do anything you could fail at. You never do anything risky. There’s a certain essential lack of courage among people who seem to be good at everything.
Beyond everything else, she loves this: how swiftly things can strike her—music, people, life—how quickly they can surprise her, all of a sudden, like a punch.
Time heals many things because it sets us on trajectories that make the past seem impossible.
There is no greater ache than this: guilt and regret in equal measure.
As with most dysfunctional couples, there was an imbalance between them regarding who needed the relationship more.
Do you feel it? Obviously it is a subjective experience, which is the only kind that matters. Anything objective is not really feelable.”
In case you haven’t noticed, the world has pretty much given up on the old Enlightenment idea of piecing together the truth based on observed data. Reality is too complicated and scary for that. Instead, it’s way easier to ignore all data that doesn’t fit your preconceptions and believe all data that does.
