Very well written, and love the Alain de Botton quote. The Course of Love, Status Anxiety, and The Art of Travel are some of my favorite books. He has an enviable way with words.
STM! hello stranger : ) did you find me through Olo? thank you for reading! i'm about to read his book, The Architecture of Happiness next, but adding those to my list!
Howdy! Yep, he linked to one of your posts a few weeks ago, I think. Architecture of Happiness is great too. Although I went into that not realizing it was literally about the built / physical environment! (I thought it was about architecting one's own happiness.) If you liked 'On Love', definitely but The Course of Love high on your 'next to read' list.
A thought that came up while reading this one: polarities create existence. Adulthood is the polarity of childhood. No magic the polarity of magic. Suffering the polarity of joy. Or something like that. Without suffering, joy is like a fish in water that doesn’t know about water. Only with the existence of suffering do we appreciate and “experience” joy. Experiencing the existentialism of life is a polarity of great aliveness, so maybe there’s just some balancing that is happening to make “real” some aliveness (or vice versa)
Very well written, and love the Alain de Botton quote. The Course of Love, Status Anxiety, and The Art of Travel are some of my favorite books. He has an enviable way with words.
STM! hello stranger : ) did you find me through Olo? thank you for reading! i'm about to read his book, The Architecture of Happiness next, but adding those to my list!
Howdy! Yep, he linked to one of your posts a few weeks ago, I think. Architecture of Happiness is great too. Although I went into that not realizing it was literally about the built / physical environment! (I thought it was about architecting one's own happiness.) If you liked 'On Love', definitely but The Course of Love high on your 'next to read' list.
A thought that came up while reading this one: polarities create existence. Adulthood is the polarity of childhood. No magic the polarity of magic. Suffering the polarity of joy. Or something like that. Without suffering, joy is like a fish in water that doesn’t know about water. Only with the existence of suffering do we appreciate and “experience” joy. Experiencing the existentialism of life is a polarity of great aliveness, so maybe there’s just some balancing that is happening to make “real” some aliveness (or vice versa)