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Sky Fusco's avatar

I loved this one so much Sasha. Thank you for generosity and sass. It reminds me a lot of Oliver Burkeman's thoughts. It gets at this idea that part of surrendering - or maybe what precedes it - involves choice-making and sacrifice. It's like often we don't want to make choices or sacrifices, we want to trick ourselves into trying to do it all or have it all, usually by way of imagining better scenarios than the ones we are currently in, or through senseless over-productivity. Alternatively, if the road to doing and having it all hasn't yet revealed itself to us, we "wait it out" or hold off, some bullshit mental placating, which I see as just another way to avoid the painful truth of our mortality, finitude, and limited time to make choices which ultimately lead to sacrifices. No way around it.

"There is a small, young part of me that is terrified of letting even a single solitary second luminesce on its own. It says: the world is not a safe place, so we have to do something about that."

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tom crosse's avatar

Surrender takes courage. Sometimes more than we can muster. For some reason this post reminded me a bit of Tillich. Perfect to read before bed. Thank you.

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