I used to want to make waves and now all I want is to look closely at ripples. I wanted to be “impactful,” which to me meant being part of big things. My mom worked in the White House growing up, so she was part of big things. I worked in tech for so long, which is obsessed with scale and impact (though the nature of that impact is sometimes left undiscussed). It’s not that I don’t understand that that stuff is important, since we live in a large-scale society and someone’s got to make the big decisions, but whereas before I hungered for that kind of importance, now I mostly feel tired by it.
Simple, messy, fragrant, and brief
Simple, messy, fragrant, and brief
Simple, messy, fragrant, and brief
I used to want to make waves and now all I want is to look closely at ripples. I wanted to be “impactful,” which to me meant being part of big things. My mom worked in the White House growing up, so she was part of big things. I worked in tech for so long, which is obsessed with scale and impact (though the nature of that impact is sometimes left undiscussed). It’s not that I don’t understand that that stuff is important, since we live in a large-scale society and someone’s got to make the big decisions, but whereas before I hungered for that kind of importance, now I mostly feel tired by it.