Incomparably

 

The first step of any meaningful pursuit is to severely underestimate its difficulty.

A tweet I saw. This is radicalizing me because I will stop attempting something I had interest in if I do not immediately excel at it. What’s that complex? God? Anyways.

Been reading a lot of short-form content because the books I’m finding are not keeping me sat and are ruining my sleep schedule. I miss that. I need that. But back to what I’m saying... I got to reading about inventions, and I’m a history nut already, but I’m really loving history of things—specifically, inventions made out of love. To be loved is to be known and considered because check it.

But first—did you catch that? Romanticizing everything? Yeah.

Back to it... surgical gloves, band-aids, Wordle—this was a surprise for me because I thought it was just a paper filler. The telephone—see, I thought this was Mr. Graham, but turns out some Italian chap invented it while working in his basement lab at home. His wife was upstairs, and he just wanted to yap a little. 

I'll say it, "me and who?🧍"

The list is still growing, but small intermission for this quote that had me clutching my pearls:

“There once was a very great American surgeon named Halsted. He was married to a nurse. He loved her—immeasurably. One day Halsted noticed that his wife’s hands were chapped and red when she came back from surgery. And so he invented rubber gloves. For her. It is one of the great love stories in medicine. The difference between inspired medicine and uninspired medicine is love.

When I met Ana, I knew: I loved her to the point of invention.”
– Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House

Ok, so back to the list—Alfredo sauce because this guy wanted to please his pregnant wife, baking soda because this other guy’s wife was allergic to yeast and eggs but he still wanted her to enjoy baked treats, this dad who just had to make a bendy straw because his daughter struggled with a straight straw in a tall glass... and so much more.

Someone invent something for me, or I’ll cry.