Article/Internal Circumstances Are the Only Thing You Can Control: Mourning the Magicians

Loss is personal—no one aches the same way—but they lose Quentin together, and that’s what makes the grief of season five so monumental.

it’s ok to be hurting and feel broken and lost. Just take those things into account while you’re doing what needs doing.

You can only account for yourself. You’re not going to be chosen. You’re not going to be a hero. You’re going to be better at doing what needs to be done if you accept the whole mess of who you are.

all of these things, the good parts and the bad parts and the ugly parts, matter. Working around them isn’t effective. The only way out is through. You can’t just ignore the bad parts and carry on—not in your friends, and not in yourself. You have to keep checking in, internally and externally, and keep accounting for what’s going on with you. There is no mastery without doing the work.