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“the new wife rejoicing to see the stick that is used to beat the older wife should remember that it only patiently awaits its next victim.”

One should cultivate one’s own madness as you might need it when the time comes to confront the madness of others.
- Yoruba Proverb

As Mr D is teaching me, the art of cultivating a desire to live includes knowing how to temporarily look away from things that might wipe out your ability to see at all.

‘In a world of hurt, heartbreak is a flower that blooms red and dies and leaves only a scent but the flower was there, to live, to be, to change. The field. Nothing more, nothing less. Not wasted, not wasted. Meant to be a flower. Meant to leave a scent.’