So when you realise you’ve gone a few weeks and haven’t felt that awful struggle of your childish self—struggling to lift itself out of its inadequacy and incompetence—you’ll know you’ve gone some weeks without meeting new challenge, and without growing, and that you’ve gone some weeks towards losing touch with yourself.

Part of Ted Hughes’ letter to his son after the death of Sylvia Plath

Read the full letter here: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/09/live-like-mighty-river.html

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