#worthiness

...so embedded that even modest proposals—like canceling student loans or medical debt—are met with moral outrage. What about personal responsibility? What about fairness? But no one asks whether it’s fair that Wall Street got a bailout while working families got foreclosure. Or that tax cuts for the wealthy are “investments,” while relief for the poor is a “handout.”

Debt functions like religion: enforced by ritual, defended by dogma. The high priests wear suits, not robes. And the heresy they fear most is not inflation or default—it’s forgiveness.

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(DISCLAIMER: I've got the books mentioned below in French, so I either had to dig for the quotes on Goodreads or make a poor attempt at translating them myself. Just focus on the ideas I'm trying to get across through these great authors.)

In The Good Enough Life, Marina van Zuylen wrote something that sounded like* : "Experience is a set of viewpoints and judgments that can always be adjusted. This is why the relationship between an action and its reception can only one part of the equation. To let judgment take up the entire space is to admit that the result is more important than the process. In writing this book, I am conducting an inquiry that brings me pleasure, that helps me better understand my place in the world, and my relationship to failure and success. If I focus essentially on its reception, on the criticism it could provoke, then I am wasting the joy that pushed me to write it in the first place." = Because everyone should be able to do what they want because it feels inherently good, not because it benefits them in some way.

In her Writer's diary, Virginia Woolf said : "The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw. One must get out of life...one must become externalised; very, very concentrated, all at one point, not having to draw upon the scattered parts of one's character, living in the brain." = Because Virginia Woolf highlights the gap between the personal satisfaction she derives from the act of writing and the anxiety that the reception of her works can cause her. She insists that the true work lies in the labour of the mind, the attempt to give form to ideas, and not in commercial or critical success. And she said she didn't want to write anything that she didn't enjoy.

In Letter to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke, he reminds us that: "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsay able than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life." = Because he encourages to focus on one's inner world and to write for oneself, trusting one own inner necessity. He conveys the idea that the judgement of others is secondary and that the true source of art is creative solitude and a deep connection with oneself.

So keep going, my friend.🌼

I want to be held. Gently and safely, without having to explain or shrink myself.

I want to feel emotionally safe not just in theory, but in real arms, in real presence, and real understanding.

I want compassion to meet me where I am, not where I should be.

I want peace that doesn’t demand perfection first.

I want softness that melts the armor I’ve worn for too long.

I’m tired of carrying it all alone.