“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”
— Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Still thinking about how Michelangelo said excellent people like to solitude-max because they don't want to "corrupt themselves with the vain conversation of idle persons and degrade their thoughts"
i think every woman should be allowed to wander around collecting little objects that make her feel like she found them for a reason. shell. feather. weird rock. acorn. extremely suspicious stick.
beyond a certain net worth, negotiating with people less privileged than you (cab drivers, house help, carpenters etc) causes rot to the soul.
just overpay and move on