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#mental health
Is this just the definition of a mid-life crisis?
Obligatory note that, no, I'm not about to top myself. I'm just philosophically interested in life, death, and everything in between.
Seth Godin on 'emotional hygiene'
One hundred thousand per-cent this:
Our culture creates traps and opportunities. There’s social and commercial pressure to engage in activities and jobs that don’t serve us very well. If horror movies give you unsettling nightmares, don’t go. No matter how many times your friends invite you, no is a complete sentence.
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Routine excitement
Sigh. It's only recently that I've realised that living on a tense knife edge between routine (autism) and novelty/excitement (ADHD) is not how most people experience their inner lives.
I'm still coming to terms with it, but even though I don't have a diagnosis, reading about AuDHD is quite liberating. For example, just accepting that I have an "interest-based neurology" allows me to cut myself some slack. Because, at the end of the day, I'm my own harshest critic.
…Mountains at Saint-Rémy
I don't think I've seen this painting before, but I really like it.
From the Guggenheim website:
During the years preceding his suicide in 1890, Vincent van Gogh suffered increasingly frequent attacks of mental distress, the cause of which remains unclear. Mountains at Saint-Rémy was painted in July 1889, when Van Gogh was recovering from just such an episode at the hospital of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole in the southern French town of Saint-Rémy. The painting represents the Alpilles, a low range of mountains visible from the hospital grounds. In it, Van Gogh activated the terrain and sky with the heavy impasto and bold, broad brushstrokes characteristic of his late work.
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Bo Burnham is a genius
I remember watching Inside by Bo Burnham during the pandemic and being very impressed by his creativity. This is right up there with that, a genius mix of comedy, storytelling, revelation, and music.
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