All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
— Isak Dinesen, quoted by Kyle Bingman. This is the purpose of nearly all culture, I think, and much of the occasional depression has to do with the unraveling of one’s story: when suddenly sorrows stand as isolated losses, catastrophes without transcendent contexts, instead of components of a meaningful narrative of overcoming. (via mills)(via gregbrown)
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