“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute.
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“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute.
Rather, a life spent “not minding what happens” is one lived without the inner demand to know that the future will conform to your desires for it—and thus without having to be constantly on edge as you wait to discover whether or not things will unfold as expected.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
You have less control of your life than you think.
As humans, we love stability and control. We enjoy predictability and fear the unknown.
You don’t like the fact that at any moment, you could get hit by a bus, or lose something precious to you.
You don’t like it. But it’s reality!
In reality, we don’t control most external things that happen to us.
We
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