We do not romanticize pain in this household anymore

Inwards/Onwards #5

In my last essay, I wrote about what it’s like to go through a long, drawn out period of change and to find oneself struggling in the space between before and after.

Then, last week, by coincidence, I got the assignment to work on a philosophical and psychological exploration of the annoying German proverb “Der Weg ist das Ziel”, which translates to “th…