Status Updates From Foe

“Tension can build up and live and fester, creep into in the smallest corners of daily life. This a move back toward regularity, to predictability. We all want certainty.”

"They stay together because it's expected, because it's what they know. They try to make it work, to endure it, and end up living under some kind of spiritual anesthetic. They go on, but they are numb. And the more I think about, the more I think there's nothing worse than to live your life this way. Detached, but abiding. It's immoral."

“Why do people stay together?"

"Because they love each other. They're committed to each other. They depend on each other. There's comfort there, security.”

“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.”

“Beauty isn't fleeting. Beauty is eternal.
But...'m not. I'm fleeting.“

"What if it never comes? The storm. The rain. We act like it has to come, like it's inevitable because it has always come before, but what if a storm doesn't come this time and things just keep going on and on like this forever? What then?”

“Whats impossible becomes not only achievaple but then is also quickly forgotten when the next impossibility becomes the new pursuit.”

“Doesn’t life have to be determined by each individual, and be involved to be legitimate? Doesn’t there have to be an element of challenge and progression?”

“The privilege of being human is that our brains are big enough to decide the fate of other creatures.”

“The only constant quality of humanness is that we adapt. Always."

“I'm not here only to help you feel secure in your life.”

“The thought of ever going somewhere new is scary. But isn't it good to scare yourself from time to time? It's so easy to get stuck in your own narrow rut. We convince ourselves they're paths to something else, contentment, but really they're just ruts going on forever."

“Being alone, it's a tricky thing. I's good for us, in doses, but not for a prolonged period. And not when you're not used to it."

“Anybody can remember details if you ask them to, but it doesn't mean it actually happened that way.”

“Despair is never satisfied on its own. Despair does not want to be alone. Despair warts company.“

“I endured the passage of lonely days indifferently. Hen changed that. She gave me a purpose. A reason to exist.”

“…whenever I think about the past, I feel a heightened sense of oblivion.“