As you get older, you live more life; you have more real experiences that you add to the emotional toolbox without realizing that you’re doing it. And so sometimes, as you get older, quite honestly, emotions are easier to access because they just simmer below the surface all the time — because there’s just so damn many of them.
— Kate Winslet, from “Kate Winslet Pushes Her Characters, and Herself, to the Edge.” (NY Times, March 3, 2024)
Indeed…and add an ingredient of not-knowing-what’s-ahead, and you’ve got the recipe for experiencing emotions with arms wide open
That we do!
i think, with age, there’s also a sense of just wanting to go for it … what have you got to lose? it’s now or never. 🙂
That is TRUTH Ren!
“This is why I value that little phrase ‘I don’t know’ so highly. It’s small, but it flies on mighty wings. It expands our lives to include the spaces within us as well as those outer expanses in which our tiny Earth hangs suspended. If Isaac Newton had never said to himself ‘I don’t know’, the apples in his little orchard might have dropped to the ground like hailstones and at best he would have stooped to pick them up and gobble them with gusto. Had my compatriot Marie Sklodowska-Curie never said to herself ‘I don’t know’, she probably would have wound up teaching chemistry at some private high school for young ladies from good families, and would have ended her days performing this otherwise perfectly respectable job. But she kept on saying ‘I don’t know’, and these words led her, not just once but twice, to Stockholm, where restless, questing spirits are occasionally rewarded with the Nobel Prize.”
– Wislawa Szymborska on the importance of telling oneself “I don’t know.”
In 1996, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality.”
#NobelPrize
Love this Maria. Thank you for sharing.
Love Kate. She’s so real.
She so is! Love her!