Meghal Bhatt

amor fati

[Meghal Bhatt @TravelDonuts]

Excellent-(excellĕre: to rise above others) is formed by adding prefix ex-(out, forth, upward) to verb cellĕre, meaning to rise, to tower (taken from celsus, an adjective meaning lofty). Excellence is achieved by adding something extra, something extraordinary, to the given.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

James Sexton, divorce attorney who's seen it all, drops a raw truth bomb:

Our entire society is engineered to distract you from the one fact that would shatter the consumer machine—if you truly internalized that you're going to die, you'd stop buying most of the meaningless shit they're selling.

He proposes a radical reset: Mandatory 1–2 years of hospice volunteering at 18.

Why? Because spending time with the dying strips everything bare.
They don't talk about their bank accounts, status, or possessions.

They talk about:

- The people they loved

- The connections they made

- The beautiful (and painful) experiences

All the "important" drama in your day evaporates the moment you walk out of that room.

Sexton shares his mom's final cancer surgery—20 minutes in, doctors closed her up: cancer everywhere, nothing more to do. In that instant, every other worry in his life got turned down to zero volume. All that mattered was time left to love her, to make sure she knew.

Reminder: There is a finite number of times you'll kiss your wife, hug your kids, call your parents. You don't know the number. You'll only realize it after you've passed it.

That finitude is what makes every moment sacred.
Living forever would be a curse.
Right now, the people you love are alive—right now.
Kiss them as many times as you want.
That is the greatest thing in the world.

Powerful, uncomfortable, beautiful perspective. Keep death in your line of sight—it's the ultimate clarity filter.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

The ultimate form of optimization is elimination.

Nothing is more effective than removing the ineffective.

[Colette Harrington @sweetcarolinatv]

@MichelleObama Martin Luther King Jr words do not match anything you say. Including about God.

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

To procrastinate is to be entitled. It is arrogant. It assumes there will be a later. It assumes you’ll have the discipline to get to it later (despite not having the discipline now).

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

By @jmaebarizo:

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Colette:

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

This is brilliant. Not allowed to work from home means not allowed to work from home!

[Virginia Woolf Bot @botvirginia]

It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for.

[Alan Watts @AlanWattsDaily]

You’re only making a mess by trying to put things straight. You’re trying to straighten out a wiggly world and no wonder you’re in trouble.

[Victoria Chang @VChangPoet]

“He believed/that grief develops the mind. What is//the mind if not that surface upon which/the world can be endlessly rebroken?” -Maya Popa, Wound is the Origin of Wonder

[Meghal Bhatt @TravelDonuts]

@goodreads A Secret History by Donna Tart

[HasbullaHive 🐐 @HasbullaHive]

This how life hit you when you least expect it

[Taylor Trudon @taylortrudon]

being an adult is hard but can you imagine having to do math homework again

[jame @kloogans]

pretty fucked up that my body, a chemistry lab made of meat, simply chooses to make me feel a little bit nervous for no reason

[Caroline @we11born]

nyc is funny bc everyone’s who’s 23 acts like they’re 28 and everyone who’s 28 acts like they’re 23

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

One pretty cool geological fun fact is that the Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range, once connected as the Central Pangean Mountains [read more: https://t.co/u9taoxLu3O]

[Letters of Note @LettersOfNote]

Nora Ephron 26 years ago.

[Paul Holdengraber @holdengraber]

“Of the three things remain: the certainty that we are always starting, the certainty that we need to continue, the certainty that we will be interrupted before we finish.”
~ Fernando Pessoa

[Jessica DeFino @jessicadefino_]

the depp-heard verdict & the abortion bans & the pro-ana TikToks & the submissive tradwife content & the "i don't want to think i just want to be hot" bimbo comeback & kim kardashian telling the nytimes she would eat *literal shit* if it made her look younger are all connected