bittersweet condition

 
Send­ing y’all love who are hav­ing a rough time. 🖤

 

What feels like back­slid­ing may ac­tu­al­ly just be the nat­ur­al course of some­thing old un­rav­el­ing … you’re still mov­ing forward. 

 

They name my kind as hav­ing a “bit­ter­sweet con­di­tion”

… a near-con­stant melan­choly that nev­er­the­less brings with it awe, won­der, and con­tent­ment in find­ing depth. 

Some days it is not easy for me to be awake — no mat­ter where I go, and how much beau­ty and love I ab­sorb, my safest place re­mains draw­ing, alone. 

 

But I love every mo­ment I have and aim only to in­creas­ing­ly wel­come the en­tire range of the heart­break­ing­ly beau­ti­ful ex­pe­ri­ences we get, deeply and pro­found­ly, all of it.

 

When I am old and grey, you can come vis­it me on the moun­tain of qui­et joy I will have built by then.

 

—ruby roth

Flom­mist Ruby Roth is an artist, de­sign­er, cre­ative strate­gist, and the au­thor-il­lus­tra­tor of four lead­ing books for kids. Her work has been fea­tured on To­day, CNN, FOX, NBC, ABC News, and oth­er ma­jor me­dia out­lets. Copy­right © 2023 Ruby Roth.

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