There's a line early in Pema Chödron's Living Beautifully that stuck out to me where she says (citing a neuroscientist) that emotions naturally last only a few seconds — that (as I understood it) we prolong emotions by our own choice. That rings true| Joe Cecil
It amazes me how much of my life is downstream of reading a Harry Potter fanfiction for the lulz on a whim when I was fourteen. I had been decidedly Christian; I became an atheist because of that fanfiction, first briefly then lastingly. I had been raised conservative, and at| Joe Cecil