Glennon Doyle

And I think sometimes the sadness is the distance between the inner vision and the outer world.

The greater the distance is between those two things, the greater the ache, the greater the sadness, the greater the anger.

I don't want to be around anyone right now who's not pissed off and sad.

They scare the crap out of me.

I want to be with the brokenhearted because I just know right away that those people have an inner vision that is aligned with mine, and that is what's causing the brokenheartedness.

And I also think we shouldn't hide it from each other.

I mean, I just had an experience where our oldest just graduated from college, but he was home over break his senior year.

And I had been struggling very much to, like, have my shit together each day and be, like, vertical.

I told myself right before he got home that I was going to tighten it up.

Okay, because he's coming home and he needs joy and he needs, he'd been through a lot at school and he needs, you know, a mom who's together and whatever.

So he came home and I was like, sunshine.

I was sunshine each day.

I was music on.

I was, yeah, doing the whole thing.

And two-thirds of the way through the week, he just walked up and was just, like, despondent.

And I was like, what's going on?

And basically, he was like, I can't be in this place.

Like, what is going on?

Do you people not know what's happening in the world?

And I was like, god damn it!