“ You’d like to think that nearly getting killed would be a major, permanently life-altering experience, but in truth it was less painful, and occasioned less serious reflection, than certain breakups I’ve gone through. If anything, it only reinforced the illusion that in the story of my life only supporting characters would die, while I, its protagonist and first-person narrator, would survive. I’ve demonstrated an impressive resilience in the face of valuable life lessons, and the main thing I seem to have learned from this one is that I am capable of learning nothing from almost any experience.
— Tim Kreider, in an essay titled “Reprieve” in the NY Times’s Happy Days Blog. Krieder is the creator of one of my favorite comics, The Pain — When Will It End?. This is an awesome essay.
