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Three years ago this book returned me to myself. Or it found me as it was already happening. Or it created me.
Sep 30, 2024
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dreamy and relatable tale of a lost middle aged man who found peace and purpose through surfing. Ironically, I followed the same journey without knowing, down to the same tree he sat under. I read the book years later and felt an overwhelming sense of validation.
Jan 14, 2025
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Yes I realize this is far more than one book, but I read all of these stories in very close succession & I believe they shaped me into the guy I am today. These are all very sensitive-young-man-core, but what can I say? I was a sensitive young man.
I have a very complicated relationship with Mother & Father. When I was first introduced to Kafka, it was like meeting my soulmate. I don’t have it in me to go into much detail at this moment, but being condemned to death by drowning for failing an aging father who can sense a deeply felt resentment; waking up one day to find you’ve turned into a disgusting bug after sacrificing so much for a family that cares so little— these are ideas that deeply rattled & resonated with me personally at the age that I read them. I resolved to try to live differently.
Death of Ivan Ilych was simply further exhortation for me to not live my life according to convention, to pursue wealth, status, family life for their own sakes. I think every single one of us has it in us to become an Ivan Ilych without even realizing. I was totally rapt & manic upon finishing this one I still am today, to some degree.
Portrait of the Artist really spoke to me as well. When Stephen looks at his father & realizes he’s a fool, and that he wants to be nothing like him. The moment when he sees the girl in the water & he becomes so horny he decides to dedicate his life to the pursuit of beauty, to aesthetics, to being an artist. The entire ending segment written as first person journal entries filled me with a lot of hope.
Emerson is the man. Great way to shock the materialist reductionist, the comformist, the busybody, & the consistent, conventional company man out of your system. Probably made me a more annoying person when alls said & done. Oh well.
May 12, 2024
I was a little buried in one world and found this other. I realized in reading it that I wasn't looking to change my life as much as find space for myself within what I had
Nov 6, 2024
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Coded a blog with my bare hands. Wrote about heartbreak. Did it because a boy I liked two years ago did it, so I did it too. I miss the way I used to like people.
Sep 30, 2024
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I like to chew it.
Sep 30, 2024
A friend of mine gave me a psychic reading for my cat (Bug), and she loves flowers. She's not afraid of death. She wants her own water fountain too. And she's so excited to watch me grow. She doesn't want me to be afraid of her dying because she's just happy to be here and it's only just the beginning. She knows all my secrets. And why I cry. And she thinks I'm beautiful.
Sep 30, 2024