Remember To Look Up At The Stars And Not Down At Your Feet

The sexual tension between me and my made up antagonists

The opposite of anxiety is not calmness, it is desire. Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility of relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known. There is nothing mysterious about the anxious state; it leaves one teetering in an untenable and all too familiar isolation. There is rarely desire without some associated anxiety: We seem to be wired to have apprehension about that which we cannot control, so in this way, the two are not really complete opposites. But desire gives one a reason to tolerate anxiety and a willingness to push through it.

Open to Desire

Mark Epstein

“you should be at the club” Brother I should literally be sent to the seaside for my health

Joining the war on day drinkers on the side of day drinkers

oomf

sympathetic institution of the museum of jurassic technology

bingo

Soft speak with a mean streak nearly brought me to my knees

Nothing but respect for MY president

i’m addicted to seeing you happy