The Human Trampoline

"What remains of your past if you didn’t allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don’t have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories, procedural and de-populated. It’s as if a neutron bomb went off and all you’re left with are hospital corridors where you’re scanning the walls for familiar photographs."

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David Rakoff

Rakoff quotes forever.

Transcript | This American Life (via birdmechanical)

This is a pretty good answer to the question, “Why are you like this?”

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24 August 2012 ·

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