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I don’t often know how to approach the easy questions in life.

This is because the only easy questions are those that seem to be easy; however, they’re actually just parts of a complex equation or series of questions that have been naively reduced to “easy questions.”

Sometimes things appear obvious and then you find yourself down a deep and misunderstood path of rejection, confusion, and neverending drama.

Chasing your proverbial tail.

We may think our moments of clarity are the moments when we are most fully human; but perhaps they’re the moments when we’re most full of ourselves.

Life isn’t a series of reducible equations.

The experience of finally putting handles on something is not the experience of getting control over it; it is the experience of starting to grasp the unfathomable greatness of it.

We like using phrases such as “it is clearly stated” or “so-and-so simply says” because it gives us more confidence in our smallness. But maybe we should learn to be

small in our smallness,

unecessary in our irrelevance,

and weak in our struggles.

Go and love because love is what you’ve come to embrace as the only thing you know to do; don’t love because it’s the simplest and straightest path.

Because it’s not.