Slow Down

If you're so smart, why can't you keep yourself entertained for hours on end just by drawing on the powers of your imagination like you could as a kid?

I’d love to be able to detach my work and my life. To be able to view my career as a job like a lot of my friends do. To be able to entirely switch off at 6pm and enter ‘personal life’ mode. Please send advice! I do have a problem with working too much, but mostly because I love it…but it’s also important to switch off, to touch grass, to swim in the sea, to wander the streets of Lisbon aimlessly without a phone for six hours on a Saturday afternoon.

A quote shared by <n>Thought Catalog</n>.

A quote from the book <n>Seeds Planted in Concrete</n> by author <n>Bianca Sparacino</n>.

A quote on the longevity of effort by <n>Reb Zalman</n>.

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”



The whole thing weighs on me like heavy cloth and I begin to feel the gravitational pull of busywork, the need for the affirmation of a thumbs up or little red heart on social media

C. S. Lewis, got this on repeat in my head

 Our modern obsession with personal branding and self-commodification wants us to flatten ourselves into something someone else can understand in five seconds, but that’s just not how people are, and it seems cruel to deem anyone so simple, least of all ourselves.

Album art for the song <n>Disciplined Flow Surrender</n> by musician <n>Sheschupek</n>.

Dostoevsky, don't forget that life is a gift

An 1889 quote from <n>Vincent van Gogh</n> to his brother <n>Theo van Gogh</n>, drawn by <n>Katie Benn</n>.

A still from the animated film <n>The Red Shoes</n>, directed by <n>Michael Sporn</n>.

Digital illustration by <n>Mathis Popelsky</n>, 2020.

Learning to choose is hard. Learning to choose well is harder. And learning to choose well in a world of unlimited possibilities is harder still, perhaps too hard.

An excerpt on uncertainty tolerance by author <n>Dr. Nicole LePera</n>.

<n>4 Layers of Consciousness</n> by <n>Still Life</n>.