Status Updates From Esto es agua

Just refound this book in the chaos of my moving all my stuff around. Parts of this essay hitting a little hard as a recent grad and all the talk of day in day out monotonous corporate misery eek

in wallace sto trovando le trattazioni più delicate e concrete di cancro, depressione e suicidio, senza essere eccessivamente crude ma non per questo meno reali. sono quasi senza parole.

“Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.”

I wish you way more than luck.

But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.