im so so sorry youโre experiencing that, you deserve none of it and im really proud of you for sharing your art! it takes so much courage to share the most vulnerable parts of ourselves on a platform that can (and clearly did) reach millions. i hope that you keep sharing, and never forget that this platform is always a safe place to share stuff :)
iโm almost done reading Pessoaโs Book of Disquiet, and I found this piece encapsulates the plight of perfectionism and the desire to write really well - I should say that this is more prose than poetry but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless
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Incredibly compelling (so far). The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
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I want to thank Liv for giving me my favourite book.
Clarice has been my favourite author since I was 14, reading what she writes always felt like reading my thoughts and beliefs about life on a page as if they had been scooped out of my brain and elegantly placed in a book.
This is the only text I had never read and known to be her most regarded work The Passion According to G.H. takes the status of a masterpiece In the Brasilian Literature scenario. I wanted to make sure to read it when I felt ready, ready to say goodbye to Clarice, as I turned 21 one of my best friends gifted me this book and I knew it was time.
The history is simple, a woman is cleaning her house, and she finds a drawing, a roach and God. From there Clarice takes your hand and leads you into the journey of finding meaning.
According to Aristotle, the end of all human actions resides in the search for happiness. This book describes that in the most genius way. Heaven and hell are portrayed as being a place on earth, a place on us. I doubt that two people can read this book and tell you the same history, it is highly subjective you can take away from it whatever exists in your mind.
My biggest takeaway was that hell and even are inside of us, by wishing for things you don't have you must go through war to achieve them, war is hell. By wishing for things that you already have (like seeing your friends on the weekend, talking to your grandparents, baking a cake) you find heaven. Heaven is in the simple, it is in the recognition that you were given more than what you could have asked for. Love is the realization of getting someone you wished for through passion, it is tedious, complete and beautiful. You can find content in love, and you no longer wish.
That is what I read, but please don't let my blurry vision take you down a path. I am sure that if you read it your life and experiences would lead you to many different conclusions.
This is a book that I would love to give to everyone I know and ask them what it is about.
That is the beauty and geniality of Clarice.
"Humility is much more than a feeling, it is reality seen with a minimum of good sense".
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Chapter 5, Silences. A good read. In my opinion lol. But truly, I enjoyed this obsession so much. It was a surreal and beautiful experience to ponder the nature of silences. There is a plain text version of this conceptual piece of its too difficult to read :)
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