the best part of succession is that it never used flashbacks tbh. a whole show about familial trauma and abuse was weaved into the way everyone interacted with one another, that specific kind of pain you can only pick up on based on how siblings fight and share stories
God has never let me have anything big that I wanted, anything real, of meaning, without the interference of time and the insistence that I give some part of myself to it with resolve. That I mold myself along with the dream
Piers Morgan asked Norman Finkelstein how he thought his Holocaust-survivor parents would have reacted to oct 7,
He Replied: “They had the right to hate the people that destroyed their lives, & the people of Gaza have the right to hate the people who destroyed their lives.”
life really is over at 21, then again at 25, then at 28, and on and on. it ends and begins, over and over, until death finally comes. you are continuously reborn like a phoenix, forever oscillating between ‘it’s so over’ and ‘we’re so back.’ that is the sunnah of life.
my cats are on my bed in recovery post vacuum sesh and i’m comforting them telling them “look i’m sorry but we’ve gotta do that sometimes… mostly bc of you honestly… not to victim blame…”