{"id":17436,"date":"2013-06-21T01:10:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T01:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/06\/21\/moretheres-a-quote-by-andrew-solomon-about\/"},"modified":"2013-06-21T01:10:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T01:10:14","slug":"moretheres-a-quote-by-andrew-solomon-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/06\/21\/moretheres-a-quote-by-andrew-solomon-about\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

there’s a quote by Andrew Solomon about the opposite of depression being vitality and so I looked it up (knowing the\u00a0meaning\u00a0<\/em>of the word, but not the definition<\/em>)<\/p>\n

the dictionary said:<\/p>\n

1:\u00a0a : the peculiarity distinguishing the living from the nonliving;\u00a0<\/span>b : capacity to live and develop; also : physical or mental vigor especially when highly developed<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

2:\u00a0<\/span>a : power of enduring;\u00a0<\/span>b : lively and animated character<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

…all right.<\/span><\/p>\n

1a is funny. it’s funny because it’s so precise, yet so vague; it tells nothing about the soul, or the state of the soul. doesn’t every living one of us have vitality, with that definition? we are all vital. say it. a lot. we are all vital. vital. you are vital.<\/span><\/p>\n

(it’s started to be a funny word.)<\/span><\/p>\n

1b: live, develop, grow, change, come into a sort of understanding. I feel this. I feel this like I felt the sharp, deep growing pangs I used to get in my legs. it hurt as I lay in bed, but I would imagine in the dark the tendons and muscles of my legs oozing and creeping and stretching. I fancied the idea of growing out of pain.<\/span><\/p>\n

this is my every day. if I don’t hurt, or at least ache, I don’t grow. I seek that ache. I never drown in it.<\/span><\/p>\n

2a: an artist’s dream. vitality. everlasting presence. someone remembering your point of view long after you have been rendered unable to tell it.<\/span><\/p>\n

2b: lively? animated? a character. a shadowbeing, living in front of you, keeping the smile. keeping the mask still (sometimes). making it dance when it needs to.<\/span><\/p>\n

vitality.<\/span><\/p>\n

my brain’s personal alternative to depression.<\/span><\/p>\n

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there’s a quote by Andrew Solomon about the opposite of depression being vitality and so I looked it up (knowing the\u00a0meaning\u00a0of the word, but not the definition) the dictionary said: 1:\u00a0a : the peculiarity distinguishing the living from the nonliving;\u00a0b : capacity to live and develop; also : physical or mental vigor especially when highly … <\/p>\n

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