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I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences. ↗
Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God. ↗
The experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful. I just thought, I never want that to happen again. ↗
Experience by itself proves nothing. Experience proves this, or that, or nothing, according to the preconceptions we bring to it. ↗
[In reference to vaginas] Someone saying you're "too loose"? Maybe that person's previous experience has been with women who weren't aroused (which, in the case of young adults, ins't that unusual)...Since many people think that penetration is supposed to be painful at first, a lot of them don't know how to wait for full arousal or make penetration comfortable. So, if a partner is saying you're "too loose," either they're simply experiencing a relaxed, aroused partner for the first time, or they're blowing smoke - either because they think it's the thing to say, or they were expecting to feel trapped in a vise, which is not how penetration should feel for either partner. ↗
I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience. ↗
in flow, the relationship between what a person had to do and what he could do was perfect. The challenge wasn't too easy. Nor was it too difficult. It was a notch or two beyond his current abilities, which stretched the body and mind in a way that made the effort itself the most delicious reward. That balance produced a degree of focus and satisfaction that easily surpassed other, more quotidian, experiences. In flow, people lived so deeply in the moment, and felt so utterly in control, that their sense of time, place, and even self melted away. They were autonomous, of course. But more than that, they were engaged. ↗
