Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.
The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done
But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.
But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all.
Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.
No individual can be in full control of his fate-our strengths come significantly from our history, our experiences largely from the vagaries of chance. But by seizing the opportunity to leverage and frame these experiences, we gain agency over them. And this heightened agency, in turn, places us in a stronger position to deal with future experiences, even as it may alter our own sense of strengths and possibilities.
I think we should take a break, fill our little tummies and drink up.
Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge out your eyes. Carve out your heart. And what will you get from Him? Only silence. Indifference. But merely stand looking at the playbills, sighing because your name is not on them, and the devil himself appears at your elbow full of sympathy and suggestions. And that's why I did it. . . . Because God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.
There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.