#somethimes I feel like a 🤡​ for feeling like this for a dead person

[houppellande]

20th April 2024 To Lord G.G. Byron, who got me through CoviD and through one of the darkest periods of my life. To a complicated, messy and very human man, who taught my younger self to take more risks in relationships and in life's experiences, & who showed me that perfection is overrated. I really owe this guy a part of my personal growth in recent years. With his good (and bad) example, he is proof that humanity, with its thousands of worries and desires, truly trascends time and space. B was in no way a paragon of virtue, he had very dark behaviours and opinions which I can't fully digest (nor do I think I ever will), but he sure did have a nice brain. He poured all his soul in his poems & letters, and he put down on paper some universal truths and feelings that we all feel and know but which we are often not able to express. Some of them are less universal, but still. Thank you B

Happy 200th Deathday! (+1) 🔥🔥🔥​

P.s. I think if he could see the one-note rakish reputation he has nowadays, he'll be equally stoked and angry (depending on the day)