“There’s a line in "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace that I used to return to often. It reads, “You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.” It helps a lot when I get stuck in my head about what others think of me. But I’ve learned that it is generally ill advised to accept wisdom from a man who killed himself when you are desperately trying to keep yourself alive. I have also learned that it is remarkably untrue.” “My best friend has told me, “If you killed yourself, it would actually ruin my life.” But I don’t really know what it feels like to ruin a life. But I do know what it feels like to ruin a day. And I know 100% that my death would ruin someone’s day because I watched it happen at a dental office in Chinatown. And I don’t want to ruin anyone’s day.” “They are people that would be uncomfortable ever telling you how highly or how often they thought of you and vice versa because we live in a world that eschews intimacy and affection in favor of the allegedly “comfortable” distance we choose to keep that is actually making a large portion of the population feel cripplingly lonely.” m.xojane/issues/dont-kill-yourself-your-dentist-will-miss-you
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:39:53 +0000