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"...the real success of any creative act is that it transcended reality not by bypassing it, but by going through it."

This essay by The Last Psychiatrist changed my life—irreversibly, forever, and for the better. Specifically this part:

[…] the real success of any creative act is that it transcended reality not by bypassing it, but by going through it. Or you can just go back to masturbating.

I’ll pay off my karmic debt by telling you, the reader, the same thing: do what you must. Call her, talk to her, get on a bus and see her in the light of the fading sunset. Do whatever you must to get out of your head and into the world. Fall in love. Do, already.