![]() “Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of ‘wrong’ ideas.” “Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn’t say them, couldn’t sort out my feelings about them, couldn’t keep them bottled inside me.” “As a kind of castaway myself, I was happy to escape into the fictional world of someone else’s trouble.” That’s easier than trying to fix the problems.” kindred Once he’s made everyone who isn’t like him sound evil, then he can blame them for problems he knows they didn’t cause. “…that guy who wants to be President, that Jarret, he would call you all heathens or pagans or something He does seem to enjoy calling people things like that. There was never such a time in this country…” He wants to take us all back to some magical time when everyone believed in the same God, worshiped him in the same way, and understood that their safety in the universe depended on completing the same religious rituals and stopping anyone who was different. The current state of the country does not suit him. “Jarret insists on being a throwback to some earlier, ‘simpler’ time. “How much of this nonsense does he believe, I wonder, and how much does he say just because he knows the value of dividing in order to conquer and to rule?” ![]() Nothing like a war to rally people around flag, country, and great leader.” He seems to be unhappy with certain other countries. Jarret’s supporters are more than a little seduced by Jarret’s talk of making America great again. And there may be even nastier things in that package. The thing is, you can’t separate Jarret from the ‘religious nonsense.’ You take Jarret and you get beatings, burnings, tarrings and featherings. “We have, it seems, a few people who think Jarret may be just what the country needs-apart from his religious nonsense. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.” To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. “Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.” Whatever touches us touches our writing.” “I began writing about power because I had so little.” Here is a collection of Octavia Butler quotes on writing, sci-fi, and some absolute prescient gems from her books. She covers so many of the problems we’re currently experiencing and watching play out in the news. Reading Butler in the Trump era is a challenge that’s worth the effort. Seriously tuned in to the problems facing our modern world. Octavia Butler: Sci-fi author extraordinaire. Also, she unapologetically judges books by their covers and makes way too many playlists (c'mon, books need a soundtrack too!). Audiobooks and print books get equal love. ![]() ![]() She works for that Ivy League institution down the street and tries to read as many books as possible in her free time. ![]()
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I fundamentally believe that the person I fell in love with was not the same person who left me. They can go into a long-term partnership or marriage with the goal of staying together. And, when you agree to a romantic relationship, you are, in effect, signing away (some) control over your life. Why? Because I’ve realized that I can’t control another person. After my broken engagement, however, I no longer think that is a realistic goal. Someone who I can trust will always be in my life, no matter what. For my entire life, I have searched for a partner who will be like family to me. On its surface, this takeaway is depressing and at odds with how I used to think about these things. This brings me to my biggest takeaway of all: when it comes to romantic relationships, you are never truly safe. I agreed to live the life my ex wanted to live-and he still left. I am allowed to want certain things for myself and if they bump up against what my partner wants for himself, then a larger, more difficult conversation needs to happen instead of me just giving in. While I still appreciate my ability to be open to various versions of my life, I no longer feel like I must acquiesce to keep the peace. ![]() Plus, I felt more naturally flexible on these topics than he did, and I viewed my flexibility as a strength. Every time I felt us disagreeing on something major (like where to live and/or kids), I would compromise because it was more important for us to stay together than for me to be stubborn. I prioritized the success of my last relationship over everything else. If we can’t come to a compromise about what type of life we want to have it is okay for the relationship to end. I am allowed to have different desires from my partner. ![]() I think all couples could benefit from couples therapy and if I ever get engaged again, that will be a prerequisite to us getting married.Īnother takeaway is that I don’t always have to make it work. I don’t blame myself for being blindsided by him leaving, but I do take full responsibility for not stepping up in that moment and recognizing what he was trying to tell me (however vague it might have felt at that time). It’s obvious that my ex wasn’t able to express his true feelings to me (until they came pouring out the night he left) and if we had gone to see a therapist he might have felt more comfortable opening up about the extent of his doubt and concerns. Now, I have a much better understanding of the value of couples therapy and can see that it always makes sense to go if one person wants to. He also made the suggestion in the midst of a much larger conversation, and I simply didn’t give it the attention it deserved. So I thought it was more important for him to figure his own stuff out, with my support, then for us to go to a professional to work on the relationship. At the time, I was under the impression that my ex was struggling individually and that the root of his problems wasn’t based in our relationship. And it’s not latching onto my ex’s (one time) suggestion to go to couples therapy. The first of which is that when your partner brings up couples therapy, even just offhandedly, you should listen.ĭespite the dumpster fire that was my broken engagement, I only have one regret when it comes to that entire relationship. And at this point, I have enough distance from the harrowing experience to form some takeaways. 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