Noah Eskew’s Reviews > Finding God in the Darkness: Hopeful Reflections from the Pit of Depression, Despair, and Disappointment > Status Update

so relatable ⤵️

“I LIKE TO CONSIDER MYSELF a ‘cinephile,’ despite the fact that there remains one genre of films that I never quite see fully since I tend to watch them through the makeshift slits of the fingers covering my face. I am, of course, referring to horror.”

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“If only I lived in such-and-such' decade, with
'such-and-such' people, I'd be happier." But like Gandalf's sage counsel to Frodo, that's not for us to decide.

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”