It seems hard to believe, but there was a brief time when I was genuinely worried that I’d failed too little.
Tag: emotional processing
Does Adversity Really Make Us Stronger?
For years, the universe has refused to respect my wishes. In particular, I often experience things which I didn’t want to happen. And it’s unclear who I’m supposed to complain to about this.
How to Let Go of an Old Life, or Neil Hughes and the Fiery Death of the Phoenix
Readers of How To Be Everything—Emilie Wapnicks’s guidebook to life—will be familiar with the Phoenix Approach, which describes how people occasionally reinvent themselves like the legendary phoenix rising from its own ashes.
This sounds exciting—and it is. But it turns out burning up and rebirthing out of the remains can hurt.