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BlinkBy Stephen Song
Thought
You can call all brilliant people "thinkers”, but the truth is, everyone thinks.
regret
Regret is that feeling where you resent what happened. But regret only comes from the things we are personally accountable for.
Isolationvs.
Solitude
solitude
solitude
solitude
“Thoughts are the shadows
of our feelings - always
darker, emptier, and simpler.”
-Nietzsche
A feeling can be simple, and a thought can be
complex. But how can you tell? You can’t have a
meaningful feeling without any thought behind it.
“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
If you stand on the edge, you also miss the stuff from the middle. Yet, if you’re on the center, you’ll miss everything on the edges. Seems like no matter where you go, your view will always be restricted.
What if you’re on a donut?
“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
In fact, the things that shape you may not be the things you do. Shaping y
ours
elf i
mplies
shap
ing yo
ur life, but not the other way around.
“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
What potential? Some people are born
without potential. No need to do anything
here. I’m not gointg to write anymore.
What’s the use?
The Beautiful, is what is well formed and aesthetically pleasing, whereas the Sublime is what has the power to
compel and destroy us.
- Burke
There’s some story w
e a
ll have, and it’s really something that unifies t
he
world, in that th
ere’s some w
ell b
ein
g in
our l
ives
.
Anticipation
why can’t i babble on with my thoughtsor be mistaken overyou don’t need couragethere’s a lot to get confusedwhy don’t you gobe the “bad guy”or your feelings they’re just so bad over the edge?but they are equally beautifulthe things that shape youbut it’s funnyyou can feel whatever you wanti regret not being happywell, not everything can be unrelentlessly cruel
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