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... See moreWho can say if the thoughts you have in your mind as you read these words are the same thoughts I had in my mind as I typed them? We are different, you and I, and the qualia of our consciousnesses are as divergent as two stars at the ends of the universe.
And yet, whatever has been lost in translation in the long journey of my thoughts through the m
Does the value of an experience—whether joyful or tragic—depend on the act of sharing it with others? If so, is the meaning of life inherently tied to relationships and community, or can solitude offer a comparable sense of fulfillment and purpose in moments of significance?
every human being is a storyteller, that stories are how we seek to understand the meaning of our lives
Steve Almond Tells Us
People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different f
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