Thought

Regret

Isolation vs. Solitude

Fig. 1 Isolation and solitude may look similar from the outside, but they are two different beasts. Isolation is aggressive and alienating, while solitude is tranquil and elusive. Mass murders and crime bosses are put in isolation to keep out aggressors with sharpened spoons. The iso booth prevents classroom chatter from getting in our voice over. On the other hand, hermits seek solitude. Superman built and antarctic fortress to find it.

“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier, and simpler.”

– Nietzsche

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can

without going over. Out on the edge you see all

the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.“

”-Vonnegut

-Vonnegut

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

“One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t

be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”

– Angelou

“The Beautiful, is what is well formed and aesthetically pleasing, whereas the Sublime is what has the power to compel and destroy us.” – Burke

anticipation

Sure people feel regret or regret this or that. But they also don’t want to have regrets. Have...the feelings themselves are the shadows. They have presence and effects, but we’re never able to fully look at them. Address them straight on and comprehend them...What is a shadow? It is an absence. To be cryptic/arcane: how can we see what is not there?...the result of thousands of synapses and cells and myelin sheaths...To live is to have the liberty/unkempt wild spirit...to live is to act and to experience. To choose to travel to the edge and peer over is to express one’s livingness...

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