The woman who gave me microderm abrasion said that beauty hurts. Emmylou Harris says that love hurts. Right now buying ugly sweatsuits and giving up seems like it would feel good.
I have a friend who likes to pass out honesty in glaringly harsh doses of revelatory light. "I bet the guy you went out with last night thought you didn't have an athletic enough body type." Making up a better reason would feel good. Avoiding friends with feedback would feel good too.
Last summer at L'Abri my good mentor Jock said that when you're at the 21st mile of a marathon, stopping the run would feel good immediately. Because you wouldn't be a running. But then the deep regret of miles wasted would come.
I want to cancel the date tomorrow with the man 6 years younger than me. Because I want to quit. I will hopefully come up with an amazingly effective pep talk for myself by 6:30.
I have a friend who likes to pass out honesty in glaringly harsh doses of revelatory light. "I bet the guy you went out with last night thought you didn't have an athletic enough body type." Making up a better reason would feel good. Avoiding friends with feedback would feel good too.
Last summer at L'Abri my good mentor Jock said that when you're at the 21st mile of a marathon, stopping the run would feel good immediately. Because you wouldn't be a running. But then the deep regret of miles wasted would come.
I want to cancel the date tomorrow with the man 6 years younger than me. Because I want to quit. I will hopefully come up with an amazingly effective pep talk for myself by 6:30.
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