[...] there is such a thing as
raw,
untainted,
unmotivated kindness [...]

[…] if you think about those times in life when you treated people with extraordinary love and fairness,
and cared for them totally selflessly,
just because they had worth as human beings […]

Well, the ability to do the same with ourselves.

To treat ourselves as we would treat a good friend,
a precious friend.

Or a child we love more than life itself.

And I think it's possible to get there.

I think part of the task we have on this earth is to learn to do this.

from "How to Be Yourself," an interview with David Foster Wallace, who would have turned fifty today and nothing... #chiaroscuro