Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness […]
… what am I forgetting? Famous last words before basically every vacation I ever take. I will be on a plane to kick off my Eurotrip in a few hours! Thanks for all the suggestions, and please do keep them coming as I only feel marginally less lost than I did a few weeks ago. […]
KONICHIWA Shouted at me and my dad as we were walking around our neighborhood. And thus I am reminded that, despite the marvels of mankind and the universe, people can suck. (For context, I am Chinese and live in an area with a large Korean community and a slightly smaller Chinese community. Not sure how […]
As he held her and tasted her, and as she curved in further and further toward him, with her own lips, new to herself, drowned and engulfed in love, yet solaced and triumphant, he was thankful to have an existence at all, if only as a reflection in her wet eyes. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
