"Give all your fucks to the living."
Mandy Brown on—well, the renewal of the soul, in a different register, I think—through devotion to the genuinely alive.
"if you give your fucks to the unliving—if you plant those fucks in institutions or systems or platforms or, gods forbid, interest rates—you will run out of fucks. One day you will reach into that bag and your hand will meet nothing but air and you will be bereft."
@beep Ethan I am SO INTO IT I am so into it.
And god, it rings so true for me. The most obliteratingly exhausting work I've done was also super-renewing *even during burnout* and this is a pretty great theory of why.
@kissane I feel like I *only* learned this lesson in the last year. Gotta figure out how to, like, actually incorporate it, but I’m glad I finally figured out something that’s actually replenishing.
Doubly glad you did, too 💜
Erin Kissane
Ethan Marcotte