Monday, February 3, 2014

Sylvia Plathing

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.

-Sylvia Plath

I  understand this quote to almost a disturbing level. Having an unquenchable desire to experience every experience-able experience and not being able to and being so keenly aware of your own limitations is kind of crappy. The result is a person who is restless. Incredibly restless. I hope I can find an outlet for this restlessness rather than stick my head in the oven and give up, like dear old Sylvia here, but she was right you know. We are all horribly limited. Now everyone stop judging Plath for always just wanting to die all the time and go read her stuff. It's real good.

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