words

An excerpt from an <n>Ask Polly letter</n> by <n>Heather Havrilesky</n>, published in <n>The Awl</n>.

“Everything about the language of wellness is designed to push the goal lines further and further out of reach,” she says. “You never arrive at a point to go like, ‘Oh, I’m well now.’ There’s always something else we could be doing.” As a result, there is no resting place because we can never fully restore what’s been lost, and there is always a greater state of enhancement to attain.

Embroidery detail on the <n>Team Recess sweatshirt</n> by <n>Recess</n>.

“I read a lot. I listen a lot. I think a lot. But so little remains. The books I read, their plots, their protagonists fade… Names of people, books, cities. They are already fading away. Even the titles of films I’ve seen recently...they have already faded… Everything that I see, or read, or listen to, connects, translates into moods, bits of surroundings, colors… With me, everything is mood, mood, or else...simply nothingness.” — Jonas Mekas

Credit <n>nino</n> and <n>Third Eye Kingdom</n>.