This is the most insane thing I have read on here for me this year. I am so sorry you had to go through that and I hope you are healing well both physically and mentally after that horrible experience.
“Years ago a friend of mine had a dream about a strange invention; a staircase you could descend deep underground, in which you heard recordings of all the things anyone had ever said about you, both good and bad. The catch was, you had to pass through all the worst things people had said before you could get to the highest compliments at the very bottom. There is no way I would ever make it more than two and a half steps down such a staircase, but I understand its terrible logic: if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”
after YEARS of seeing this quote online and finding it to be the most deeply and resoundingly profound writing i finally found the source article and absolutely nothing could prepare me for this opening paragraph
Okay but the whole article is really interesting and also contains this quote which I’ve never heard before but really like:
“Anyone worth knowing is inevitably also going to be exasperating”
sometimes I see people give Hot Takes and I think oh. You’ve never grieved before, have you? Grieved beyond your great-uncle whom you met one time at a wedding.
You haven’t experienced the kind of grief that excavates gravel from your chest cavity
