Brittany Luce

And I do think a lot of people want to emulate her in some way aesthetically.

When they are thinking about sort of like the numb girl, they're like, I want to be a kind of like chic French woman who's carrying on affairs and like having these like

And kind of like focused on my own like, you know, inner emotional world or whatever.

But one of the things, I picked up Simple Passion and I read it in like a day.

I really enjoyed it.

And if you haven't read it, I mean, this French woman is bugging.

She has a two-year affair with this married man and she's bugging like...

She's going through it like to such a level.

But you know what though?

I read the book and some of the stuff she did, I was like, girl, me too.

Like I get it.

But she talks about like getting, not to spoil it, this book is old, but she talks about like having this deep emotional attachment to this guy and then having to detach once the affair ends.

And then she comes back around to the realization that

even the depths of despair that she was feeling emotionally were, she grew appreciation for them because she, like she actually, like she lived, like she felt like she said that she felt like it's something like to the tune of, she felt like it brought her closer to humanity.

And perhaps the pain of missing someone, the pain of disappointment of heartbreak.

I think that,

And appreciating those feelings for being human experiences, I think that might be a better way sometimes to think about these things.

Like if you, you know, numbness is really just trying to escape from the depths of your own misery.

But connecting with other, like connecting with humanity, I think helps you to understand that your misery is not yours alone.

Oh, my gosh.