Living in Expectation of the Unexpected Gift
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Living in Expectation of the Unexpected Gift
We have probably already had enough excitements for many lifetimes. We have seen enough people, gone to enough places, bought enough things. We need to stop the forces of the modern world from continuing to draw us away from our true home. There is no centre, there is no party to which we have not been invited. There is just us, here, now, somewher
... See moreThe School of Life • How to Survive the Modern World: Making sense of, and finding calm in, unsteady times
The balance between being and doing is hard. We are obsessed with doing - and when we are not doing, we are looking at our phones, which is the doing that has replaced being. How to build a self ? How to find time to reflect? Time off has become the exercise class, self-improvement, a trip to the therapist, a vacation where the to-do and to-see lis
... See moreJeanette Winterson • SUMMER SOLSTICE 2022
“existential overwhelm”: the modern world provides an inexhaustible supply of things that seem worth doing, and so there arises an inevitable and unbridgeable gap between what you’d ideally like to do and what you actually can do.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
It’s all very paradoxical: that the ability to constantly communicate has made us bad communicators, that instant access to all forms of entertainment would leave us with so few touchstones, that surveilling kids doesn’t necessarily make them safer, that the absence of limitations also often means the absence of creativity — and that the particular... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • The Sterile World of Infinite Choice
