Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

mum just said i’ve become too much like my father

I became stevie wonder

Vulnerability at its heart is the willingness to show up and be seen when you can’t control perception.

Amputation 1968 By Odd Nerdrum

i have never woken up so tired

I remember always thinking that life itself doesn’t actually exist, because if no one tells it as a story or turns it into a narrative, life is merely something that happens, nothing more. To understand life, you have to tell it, even if only to yourself. This doesn’t mean that a story can make life comprehensible, because there are always gaps in any narrative, whatever sutures or remedies you might try to apply. That is why a narrative only restores life in fragmentary form.

i used to be a mature child now i’m just a childish woman

German firefighters being tested on their ability to source a sound in the dark, 1940s