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Beauty in Losing
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"What does SOFT REVOLUTION mean? It means that the only things people have ever done that are beautiful is when they took on fights that they were pretty sure they were gonna lose.
And they accepted that.
And they said to themselves, 'Even if I lose, I just want to leave this place more beautiful, and I want to be beautiful in losing.'
And I think that's what Art gives people is the opportunity to be beautiful and accept loss.
I think that's what we need to do in this dark, dark time.
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We're all losing together. You win alone but you lose together. But it's central, I guess, to my own personal way of living and I guess what gets me through the day is that life is loss – that we lose this game. Everybody loses this game. And the price of love is loss. The price of life is loss.
And our society focuses on winning to a degree that is sick. And maybe if we had all accepted loss more in our lives and been more OK with it in the past and more fully actualized in acceptance of loss, and not constantly trying – striving – to win.
'Be the best,' you know? 'Be best.' No, don't 'be best,' just be ordinary. Be you. Be fucked up. Be a mess. Just try and be beautiful. How about the idea of trying to be beautiful for a change instead of trying to be best."
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23rd Boy New Jersey
23rd Boy is the musical alias of illustrator and storyboard artist Jim Penola.
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