I’m not big on blogging memes and random quotes from social media but this one resonated. It is the ability (through extensive practice) to do this that has kept me sane and sober so far. There are periods of terror that last an awful long time, and that requires endurance certainly. Mostly though it’s knowing that it will pass that makes anything bearable.

And what greater terror is there than the fear that the good spells are about to end? Experience has lessened my fear. Of course the good parts will end! Everything does? Eventually there will be another if you let it happen, or if you aren’t terrorizing yourself trying to recreate or reenact some long ago pleasure.

Beauty and terror are opposite sides of the same coin. You will know both.