There's a kind of strength I value that isn't about how powerful your defenses are, but allowing yourself to become shattered. I'd rather be in connection and broken than disconnected and whole.
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I think this is hard because nobody has close friends anymore. If you allow yourself to become shattered youre out group and then you trigger that im-gonna-die-alone-in-the-woods brain loop
A group of best friends enables you to be more vulnerable. Lowers the stakes
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Nobody has close friends anymore?
At least, then, people who do have them might be able to aim for this.
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unless a grain of wheat shall fall upon the ground and die it remains but a single grain with no life
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Can someone allow themselves to be shattered over and over? Doesn't the eventual desensitization to afflictions generate its own defense?
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kinda reminds me of that one last airbender lion turtle quote. something about a true heart can tough the poison without becoming poison itself.
like, a willingness to keep emotionally leveraging yourself even after being burned. a "global faith" in the system
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The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold. Broken, but connected, and more beautiful for it.
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