I’m amazed at how often I’m brought to tears by truth.
This awakening I’ve had over the past year, this coming into joy and truth and self, this emergence from a lifetime of being numb into a world of feeling*, a world of emotion-as-strength, still surprises me. Still leaves me blindsided when a simple line, a simple truth being named sends me reeling, good or bad, it’s all, ultimately, good.
Here’s some good, some lived experience named: The Terrible Bargain We Have Regretfully Struck, (potentially triggering) What It Means When You Make a Rape Joke, and the life-changing All About Love by bell hooks. I hope they are as liberating for you as they have been for me.
*I read this amazing quote in some assigned reading the other day (though damned if I can remember which article it was!) that said (and I’m paraphrasing here), when you’re in the depths of despair, when all you can feel is bottomless pain, take comfort in knowing that your capacity for seemingly endless pain is also your capacity for joy. The depth of pain you experience now will one day be replaced with an equal capacity for joy. And my God is it true. THAT brought me to tears in the midst of a busy coffee shop.
P.S. I’m sorry for my extended absence, I’ve been living and loving and learning.
