Heather Havrilesky

What If This Were Enough

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  • Mariana Gamboa Aguilarhas quotedlast year
    We have to reject the shiny, shallow future that will never come, and locate ourselves in the current, flawed moment
  • Mariana Gamboa Aguilarhas quotedlast year
    our shared hallucinations and false narratives rob us of our imagination and our humanity, crush our sense of community and our connections to each other, and mute our sympathies for those who are vulnerable or oppressed, while heightening our affection for those who shamelessly oppress and harm others
  • Mariana Gamboa Aguilarhas quotedlast year
    Our addiction to fantasy and control also leads us to seek a moral for every negative outcome: He got cancer because he held on to his anger. She got rich because she persevered over adversity. He became homeless because he lost faith in his dreams. She became famous because she believed in her passions, against all odds.
  • Mariana Gamboa Aguilarhas quotedlast year
    many of us share the same symptoms, but we experience them as private and embarrassing.
  • Mariana Gamboa Aguilarhas quotedlast year
    Many of the hurdles we face are not concrete and are therefore difficult to address directly
  • Mariana Gamboa Aguilarhas quotedlast year
    we are taught to communicate triumph while privately experiencing ourselves as inadequate and our lives as disappointing
  • Mariana Gamboa Aguilarhas quotedlast year
    Because the state of cultural confusion we’re experiencing is anything but trivial.
  • Mariana Gamboa Aguilarhas quotedlast year
    Only by recognizing the absurdity of our guiding assumptions can we cultivate a more organic, enthusiastic, complex relationship to our lived experience
  • Mariana Gamboa Aguilarhas quotedlast year
    The rise of digital culture has exacerbated this problem dramatically. We’re now, more than ever before, bombarded by hidden and overt messages about our personal worth.
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