Averted Vision - NYTimes.com

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“The fresh heartbreak was, in a sense, like being in a foreign country; everything seemed alien, brilliant and glinting. It was as if I’d been flayed, so that even the air hurt. When you’re that unhappy, any glimmer of beauty or consolation feels like running into an old friend abroad, or seeing mountaintops through smog.

Maybe we mistakenly think we want “happiness,” which we tend to picture in very vague, soft-focus terms, when what we really crave is the harder-edged intensity of experience.”
Via tariqrahman
This makes sense to me, particularly given my emotional state when I returned to the US after a semester abroad.

Source: tariqrahman

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    me, particularly given my emotional state...US after a semester abroad.
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    “The fresh heartbreak was,...sense, like being...a foreign...
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