self compassion is key! Life is hard!

It is really true what philosophy tells us, that life must be understood backwards. But with this, one forgets the second proposition, that it must be lived forwards. A proposition which, the more it is subjected to careful thought, the more it ends up concluding precisely that life at any given moment cannot really ever be fully understood; exactly because there is no single moment where time stops completely in order for me to take position (to do this): going backwards.

- Soren Kierkegaard, Danish theologian, philosopher, poet. and social critic who is widely considered to be the first existential philosopher.