Kiss Yourself

Someone presented the following Arthur Miller quote to me recently and it's quite powerful:

"I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of oneself. One day the house smells of fresh bread, the next of smoke and blood. One day you faint because the gardener cut his finger off. Within a week you're climbing over the corpses of children bombed on a subway.

What hope can there be if that is so? I tried to die near the end of the war. The same dream returned each night until I dared not go to sleep and grew quite ill.

I dreamed I had a child, and even in the dream I saw it was my life, and it was an idiot, and I ran away. But it always crept into my lap again, clutched at my clothes. Until I thought if I could kiss it, whatever in it was my own, perhaps I could sleep.

And I bent to its broken face, and it was horrible...but I kissed it. I think one must finally take one's life in one's arms."

Arthur Miller
After the Fall

Kiss yourself.

Love,
Aislinn