David Bowie was held at gunpoint and called the f slur for breaking gender norms. Madonna was one of the first to stand by gay men when nobody would. Freddie's legacy raised $35 million for AIDS relief and gave a voice to those dying in silence. And then there's Billie Eilish
At 28, Dostoevsky was dragged before a firing squad, spared at the final second, and exiled to four years of hard labor in Siberia. Surrounded by brutal cold and severe illness, he lost his entire youth, but he never lost his spirit. Instead, those dark years forged his deepest wisdom and compassion for human nature. He went on to write Crime and Punishment at 45 and completed The Brothers Karamazov at 59.
No season of suffering is wasted. Yes, you can start all over again.
“Do you realize how rare it is to find someone who sees the world the same way you do, even if only for a single night?”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
Miss those days when Lana Del Rey would sing about old men twice her age, the flavor of her vagina, lines of cocaine, fucking, and wanting to die while wearing flower crowns, pole dancing, and smoking 10 million packs of cigarettes on stage.