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Category: Jean Thompson

They wanted a list of symptoms: dizziness, blurred vision, palpitations. You could not say, it is a different life trying to nudge this one aside. I am meant to be living that different life. Who would understand that, if she could make no better sense of understanding it herself?

ambiguity, life, meaning, melancholy, purpose

I am a tourist of the emotions, visiting only the most well-worn spots. It is romantic, that is, a distortion, to imagine whole lives from the barest observation.

bias, emotion, misapprehension, misunderstanding

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn’t? What if you had to stay you forever?

change, destiny, heart, humanity, identity, learning, life, memory, reality, self, soul, success, time, youth

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn’t? What if you had to stay you forever?

change, destiny, heart, humanity, identity, learning, life, memory, reality, self, soul, success, time, youth