Casey McGuire

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“It doesn’t take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone’s gaze. It’s not totally accurate to say that I felt seen. It was more that: Beheld by her, I learned how to become myself. Her interest actualized me.”
― Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

tags: actualization, becoming, becoming-yourself, being-seen, feeling-seen, self, self-understanding

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“On the other side of graduation was her actual life, the slow narrowing of possibilities that would catch her and freeze her in a vocation, a relationship, a life. She intended to avoid that slow calcification for as long as possible—if only by refraining from making any crucial choices. In other words, she was moving back home.”
― Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

tags: calcification, choices, graduation, jobs, life, moving-back-home, relationships, vocation, work

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“It doesn't take much to convince yourself that you're doing okay, just some discretionary income and a regularity to your days.”
― Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

tags: discretionary-income, doing-ok, getting-by, income, life, regular-schedule, regularity, schedule

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