“All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins — it never will — but that it doesn’t die.”
- John Steinbeck (in a letter written to his best friend during WWll)
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A lot of what we think of as 'letting go' is in fact just ceasing to self-regulate with whatever fantasies we were shoving between ourselves and reality, and coming into direct relationship with what has been true the whole time.
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My latest on Substack is probably one of the most important things I’ve ever written. Regardless of your age, gender, race, politics or status, this is both for you and about you. dannywolf.substack.com/p/att…
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Good morning.
The reason you feel Charlie’s death so deeply is because grief doesn’t measure itself by proximity. It measures itself by meaning. You didn’t have to know him personally to feel the sting of his absence, because when a voice like his goes silent, something in the atmosphere shifts.
The reason it feels heavier than so many other tragedies is because your spirit recognizes that this is not just about a man, it is about a battle. Scripture says eternity is written on our hearts, and when someone who carried truth with boldness is suddenly gone, eternity aches within us. It’s like our souls know instinctively that the darkness celebrated, and that strikes us at the core.
The reason you can’t shake it is because psychologically, we don’t only attach ourselves to people…we attach ourselves to symbols. Charlie became a symbol of conviction in a time of compromise, courage in a time of fear. And when a symbol is struck down, it rattles something primal and eternal inside us.
That’s why even those who never met him feel it. There is a strange thread pulling at us, and it is not imagined. It is real. We are bound together by shared purpose, by shared longing for truth, by the Spirit of God Himself weaving us into a fabric that cannot be torn apart. This loss pulled at that fabric, and every one of us felt the tug.
So if you’ve wondered why this hits so hard, it’s because your soul knows. This is bigger than news. This is bigger than politics. This is about eternity, about truth, and about the weight of a man whose life carried both.
Love y’all.
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Any form of "you're perfect just the way you are" (healthy at any size, etc.) is something mothers say to pre-teens. It's not for grown-ups.
It's supposed to get you to like yourself so you develop confidence and social skills. It's not a pain reliever for your personal failures in your 30s.
Messages like this are directed towards you by people who love you because your failures and flaws do not matter to them. Your mother won't dump you if you lose your job.
Your failures and flaws matter quite a lot to everyone else.
If anyone other than family is sending you that message in your adult life, it's not just a lie; it's a tactic to manipulate you.
"Don't bother being what makes people choose you" is what it means. "Other people should just start liking whatever the hell you've let yourself become."
They're not gonna.
2021 prediction: the act of shaking hands will be considered a micro-aggression/toxic masculinity/a sign of privilege.
