La douleur est inévitable. La douleur est facultative.

I am in the profoundest sense an unhappy individuality, riveted from the beginning to one or another suffering bordering on madness, a suffering which must have its basis in a mis-relation between my mind and body, for (and this is the remarkable thing as well as my infinite encouragement) it has no relation to my spirit, which on the contrary, because of the tension between my mind and body, has gained an uncommon resiliency. - Kierkegaard
....or, as miss golightly put it - the blues are when you're getting fat or when it's been raining too long - you're just sad, that's all. The reds are when you're afraid, but you don't know what of.

I blog about TANGENTS, the kind that academia can't allow - you figure it out. Just sayin.
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