some days, mindfulness isn't about clearing your mind completely or achieving absolute stillness. sometimes, it's just noticing that you're holding a heavy thought, and gently choosing to put it down for a few minutes. be kind to yourself.
He is also a master of the dramatic gesture, and some of these gestures (such as his extreme aceticism and self-mortification) will be less congenial to modern readers than others.
just a confession, i don't know if i am kind to imogen in my fics since I personally I am not a huge fan of her but that is certainly not because I ship jaroden.
Or perhaps it would burn a hole through my heart with every regret I never buried, every anger I learned to swallow, every sorrow that quietly became a part of me.
Maybe I would scream when death finally embraced me.