Always nice to see you wrestling with questions of identity and self, and channeling your ear for figurative language in the process. Like J.E., I always find new angles on perceiving life through your work: thanks as always for the thought provocation 🤝
There's something deeply resonant here. I've wrestled with the question of what to do with regret for what feels like my whole life so far. Missed opportunities, stupid choices, wasted time... The wrong way is to fantasize about what life would be like if I'd just [insert alternate history here].
But then, the sum of who I am today must be at least in part a product of this wrestling. Do I seek absolution? I don't know. Transcendence? Again, I'm not sure what that means. What I want is to be fully who I am, growing deeper and taller with each passing year. Attainment of greater virtue for the sake of attaining greater virtue.
To contextualize the deepset thorn of regret as a useful tool in that aspiration is an angle I hadn't quite comprehended before.
Always nice to see you wrestling with questions of identity and self, and channeling your ear for figurative language in the process. Like J.E., I always find new angles on perceiving life through your work: thanks as always for the thought provocation 🤝
“They say best men are moulded out of faults,
And for the most, become much more the better,
For being a little bad”
There's something deeply resonant here. I've wrestled with the question of what to do with regret for what feels like my whole life so far. Missed opportunities, stupid choices, wasted time... The wrong way is to fantasize about what life would be like if I'd just [insert alternate history here].
But then, the sum of who I am today must be at least in part a product of this wrestling. Do I seek absolution? I don't know. Transcendence? Again, I'm not sure what that means. What I want is to be fully who I am, growing deeper and taller with each passing year. Attainment of greater virtue for the sake of attaining greater virtue.
To contextualize the deepset thorn of regret as a useful tool in that aspiration is an angle I hadn't quite comprehended before.