Good afternoon, my beloved bloggers!
I hope you are having a wonderful day. I've been really enthusiastic lately about all things related to love, happiness and the idea of feeling every emotion a lot. It started with my obsessive behaviour towards THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY (more info about this soon) and then it spread everywhere.
I've been following a writer for some time now. Her name is Maria Popova. She is the main writer and creator of formerly-known BRAINPICKINGS website and currently rebranded as THE MARGINALIAN. I love the way she writes about everything she finds interesting in life because it really mirrors what I would like to sound like and write about in my own personal writing project.
The latest she uploaded on her beautiful website is an article on LOVE. Reading that, I was immediately drawn to the gorgeous quotation on love and what she said right before: "love alone bridges the impossible and the eternal"
Isn't it magical? I truly love it. What struck me the most from the whole article is when she quotes a passage from Louise Erdrich’s 2005 novel The Painted Drum:
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.
Let THAT sink in, right? Tell me what you think about it.
Thank you for reading!!!
Love you, bye!
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