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I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

the it is me.. marriage\ing ness.. soul mate ness.. et al

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” – or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

graeber unpredictability/surprise law.. fromm spontaneous law.. perpetual beta ness..

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

saudade ness et al

—brightwanderer.tumblr.com – actual/original post [https://www.tumblr.com/brightwanderer/681806049845608448/i-think-a-lot-about-how-we-as-a-culture-have]

artwork by Kaethe Butcher Illustrations

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jay on forever ness

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About The Artidote

Healing is feeling. And there’s no greater human technology that packs more feeling—and makes the transfer of it possible—than art. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

rheingold (mom) art law et al..

Whether this transfer happens through our eyes (painting, photography, sculpture, etc), ears (music & sound), our bodies (dance), the written word (literature), the spoken one (storytelling), Art has the power to enter and revolutionize something within us. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

art – being human et al

It can move us into love, compassion, curiosity, empathy, understanding, perseverance, bonding, healing, thriving—my personal favorite languages of art. ⁣⁣

And so when we talk about The Artidote (Art + Antidote), we’re talking of this silent revolution within us that encourages us to know what we know and feel what we feel so that we may live a full & wholesome life. ⁣⁣ —Jovanny Varela Ferreyra, Founder