People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.
Will SelfLust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.
Will SelfA creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
Will SelfIf you believe something, you can have a morality that means something as well. You can feel recognized as an individual within the universe; it can give meaning to who you are.
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