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Pendulum
Today was a pendulum of emotions, so, I sought a poem that encapsulated what I felt. I didn’t search that hard, so I didn’t find any. However, I found a quote that I will do well to remember. It’s not ‘new year, new me’ vibes, but here we go:
“When you’re young, you believe that there will be many people with whom you’ll connect with deeply. Later in life, you come to realize that it only happens a few times. A few moments, frozen in genuine beauty, where you look at someone and you know, from a place deep within yourself, that they are going to mean something to you, that they are rare.
When it comes to this kind of connection, it’s important to understand that energy cannot be created or destroyed — that is a scientific fact. If the depth is there, it cannot be denied, cannot slip through your fingers, cannot be something you successfully run away from due to fear of exposure or battle wounds. You can try to dismiss it, can try to stay protected and hidden from the warmth, but your hiding spot is never watertight — it always catches up to you.
And if it’s not meant to fit within the soul of you, if it’s simply not your love to hold, no amount of bargaining with your heart will anchor it. That is the beauty of discovering the things that stay, the things that fall into place. In a world of billions, in a world where we are all seeking connection but avoiding eye contact, there are remarkable points of impact where you manage to crash yourself into someone who ends up breaking through the exterior. Someone who makes contact with your heart, who grows roots within it. Together, you beat the odds.
If you have found human beings like this, I hope you protect them. I hope you risk your heart for what you feel. I hope you believe that you are worthy of something full, and pointed and real. I hope you never settle for less, because certain people are truly just rare, beautiful drops of borrowed light that find their way to you. You don't feel alien with them. The otherness never arrives. There isn't a version of yourself you have to shed in order to feel connected to them. They see you clearly. You are held there. You are chosen there. Love becomes a safe place to rest your head. A place without artifice, or armour. There are no hiding spots. Everything is unguarded, and unvarnished, and there is freedom in that kind of openness, in that kind of vulnerability.
I promise it’s worth fighting for.”
— Bianca Sparacino
I found this in Farnam Street’s Brain Food No. 557.
Book Club 📖
I actually don’t know what to read now (😅).
I realized I often start a new year with fiction, but the quality of my taste keeps increasing so that nothing makes the cut. So yeah, I don’t know what to read. I’d love to hear your recommendations :)
ps: i don’t read manga, and i don’t enjoy sci-fi.
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‘2023 colors of the sky’ by artindetails
See you soon :)
Loved the quote so much.
I'm definitely not missing any of your publications this year. Thank you and Happy New Year to you.☺️