10/30/2025
Decided to share someone else’s words today—because they are much better than anything I could express. When I realized that my pain connects me to others rather than separates me. That changed my perspective on me as an individual connected to all of humanity. When we open ourselves to others we become more open to ourselves.
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people. An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.”
~ James Baldwin