“The bottom line is this: You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it…If there is no moral question, there is no reason to write. I’m an old-fashioned writer and, despite the odds, I want to change the world”
Be careful to not get too wrapped up in life, bills, stress, dead end jobs, and entertaining men who can and will ruin your life if you let them. If you let these things consume you like most people do, one day it’ll be your 27th birthday and you will have no idea where the majority of your 20’s went, and will have nothing to show for it as you’re approaching the next decade of your life. You have your whole life to stress and worry, but not everyone has the advantage of being in their 20’s and using it wisely. Use your 20’s to design and create your life, and then plan it out. If you want to do something or try something, this is the time to do it.
Wasn’t it love? And if it wasn’t, then what was it? Didn’t you feel a sort of affection towards me? And I, you? A fondness? A care? A curiosity? A love?
If not love, then what? Something subtler? Or less than? Not quite there? If it was that, then what was missing? Ought I to have spoken out more? Admitted what I was feeling? Is it really so difficult for two people to find each other? Find - meaning, to open up. Find - meaning, to be exposed. Find - meaning, to understand one another.
Wasn’t it love, for you? For me it was a wish, a desire, a want, a thought, a dream, a realisation, a belief. Wasn’t it love for you?
Long lasting friendships and relationships require such intense levels of compassion and gentleness and willingness to understand on both sides like that’s what I’ve found to be the secret. Whenever I feel guilty for cutting ties with somebody I ask if they were passionate and gentle and willing to understand (not assimilate, understand) and the answer is always no and then I feel better. Because if it’s a no then your compassion and gentleness and willingness to understand will always fail to be a virtue in that space. It like works against you in the most insidious ways. Jaded - Drake.mp3 was on a loop for three hours the evening I realized that
