Chris WEAVER
Modern hermit choosing stillness over hustle
Category: Hermit Life
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How We Lie To Ourselves
And is that just the price of modern (specifically American) life in the 2020s? I just read an interesting and heartbreaking article by a man living through unimaginable times. As his situation grew increasingly precarious, he told himself small lies to keep going, to keep pretending everything would be ok again soon. That normalcy was Read.
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Loyalty To Pain
Our idea of worth as a culture revolves around suffering. Is it time for a new definition? I just heard a phrase that made me stop and think about my relationship to it: “loyalty to pain”. It’s about the sunk cost of past pain, and how sometimes we’ll remain in pain or even lean further Read.
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A Moment Of Calm
And yes, it involves food. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve been waking up every morning pre-exhausted, full of despair, and out of fucks about the world and everything in it. Something shifted for me yesterday, though. It was a moment of personal loss and grief, and it distracted me from the unending Read.
The Salty Solitary 