Living on Quicksand: Why Modern Love, Work, and Identity Feel So Fragile
In liquid modernity, we desperately want security from chaos. Modernidade Liquida
So, here is to finding small pockets of solidity in a slippery world. Here is to staying for the hard conversation. Here is to commitment. In a culture that worships the new and the next, being "stuck" with each other might just be the most radical act of all. What are your thoughts? Do you feel the "liquidity" in your own life? Let me know in the comments. Living on Quicksand: Why Modern Love, Work, and
But if everything is so easy, why do so many of us feel a quiet, creeping sense of anxiety? Here is to commitment
We live in an age of unprecedented convenience. With a swipe, we can find a date. With a click, we have dinner. With a few keystrokes, we can quit a job and start a new one across the country by the end of the week.
But we must stop pretending that "flexibility" is always a virtue. Sometimes, it is just a euphemism for abandonment.