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This is a good point. I've seen enough ugly broken pitifulness that I hope I never make the mistake of romanticizing being broken. At the same time, I hope that the heights of achieved by the real geniuses despite their often ruinous natures provides a sort of hail mary hopefulness to all of us who feel shattered.
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Yeah, I think that’s the healthier way to look at it. Not that brokenness itself is noble, but that being broken doesn’t automatically disqualify someone from creating something meaningful or beautiful.
I think people romanticize suffering because the broken geniuses are memorable. We forget the countless broken people who never became great, and the plenty of great people who were actually stable.