High five!

“Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others… who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.”
– John Steinbeck

A quote found in this fantastic long read on Why, in the entire history of human life, did awesomeness become the great virtue of our age (and suckiness its vice)?, by Nick Riggle

(via Jocelyn)