Status Updates From Adaptation to Life

well written

"The unloved often have a special capacity to identify and to empathize with the pain and suffering in the world."

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love, to put its trust in life. - Joseph Conrad, Victory

A third man sums up his secret to late midlife digity succinctly, "You discover that your experiences and whatever sense you have gathered in the course of your life are *needed*."

Like art, intimacy is an act of creation, but intimacy far surpasses art as a cure for emotional suffering.