compassion - by Molly Mielke - Mind Mud
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how do we care for the people we love?
Bar Boy by Salman Toor (2019) I’ve been thinking a lot about this scene from one of my favorite films by Wong Kar-Wai called In the Mood for Love. It’s breathtakingly beautiful, excruciatingly slow, and almost nothing actually happens. It is, quite literally, two and a half minutes of two people being people — only crossing paths and exchanging a long lingering glance in the last 15 seconds. But the friction-filled punch those 15 seconds pack is apparently potent enough for some of us to want to write an essay about it. Admittedly, it’s a cheap shot1. Anyone can put romantic music over…
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