Ascot is so exclusive that it is the only racecourse in the world where the horses own the people.
Art BuchwaldRead
Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.
Interpretation
Sharing struggles can create deep bonds between people.
Art Buchwald suggests that discussing our emotional challenges, such as depression, can feel like a significant survival experience, akin to surviving a war. This act of sharing not only alleviates individual burdens but also fosters a profound connection between those involved, as they find solace and understanding in each other's experiences.
In practice
In a support group, sharing personal experiences of depression can significantly help others feel less alone.
Ascot is so exclusive that it is the only racecourse in the world where the horses own the people.
Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We run and we chase. We are problem-solvers. We must be continuously tested and we continuously test ourselves. And it will not end until our lives end because of life itself.
I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?
The best things in life aren't things.
Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.
Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
I pass by people, grazing them on the edges, and it bothers me. I've got to admire someone to really like them deeply - to value them as friends.
One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
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