You Don’t Get To Look Away From Suffering

Even if you don’t have to wallow in it

Ryan Frawley
7 min readOct 30, 2022

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Photo by Jordy Meow on Unsplash

Nothing is easier than closing your eyes

Nothing is easier than looking away. It’s never been easier to distract ourselves with a thousand blinking things. Or to live in electronic echo chambers that tell us only what we want to hear.

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Ryan Frawley

Novelist. Essayist. Former entomologist. Now a full-time writer exploring travel, art, philosophy, psychology, and science. www.ryanfrawley.com