I wrote this piece in 2018 after reading Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. My friend Melia and I talked a lot about Gilbert’s magical thinking and came up with a dark/light magic theory related to Gilbert’s cult of artistic suffering. We talked about how we can end up creating suffering because it’s what we’re looking for and how maybe the opposite is possible. This was my attempt at expressing how dark magic (calling in a self-fulfilling prophecy of pain) works... at least how it worked for me at the time.
Thank you for being here.
