/Observations

“You would not be half the person you were today if everything you’d ever wanted had gone to plan. You might not choose your current circumstances, but they hold a silent invitation for you to grow into more of the person you have it within you to be. Adversity has a way of introducing us to aspects of our humanity –strengths, talents and deeper dimensions of our own being – that we couldn’t access without them. So embrace those uncomfortable emotions… they hold a silent invitation to learn and grow in whole new ways. Just because an experience is hard, doesn’t mean it’s bad. Sometimes the worst thing that ever happened to us can turn out to be the best thing.”

“and whenever I searched for myself I found others / and whenever I searched for them I found only myself / the stranger.”

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.”