What I want to tell you today

 

 is not to move into that world 

 

where you’re alone with yourself and your mantra and your fitness program 

 

or whatever it is that you might use

 

 to try to control the world by closing it out. 

 

I want to tell you to just live in the mess.

 

 Throw yourself out into the convulsions of the world.

 

-  Joan Didion -