All that being said, there are only two things in the universe which—despite evidence to the contrary—I have chosen to believe in: love & narrative. These two ideas are so important to me that I’ve even broken with my strict naming convention for blog post titles.
Love & narrative are the only two concepts with which I feel comfortable enough to suspend my disbelief and rely on to organize the chaos I perceive around me. Love & narrative can be used to make sense of a world which otherwise makes no sense to me, lenses to focus and sharpen what I see. They can both explain what has come before and motivate action in the future. In fact, I just realized how love is at the heart of Michelle McNamara’s mantra “It’s chaos. Be kind.”
Love & narrative mean everything to me.