people in sf love to ask me "what do you think your purpose is??" ten minutes after meeting me. i try to relay this two-paragraph borges story to them in response and they usually like that https://t.co/Qc1wqhQWpO
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people in sf love to ask me "what do you think your purpose is??" ten minutes after meeting me. i try to relay this two-paragraph borges story to them in response and they usually like that https://t.co/Qc1wqhQWpO
Like many — dare I say, most — people in their early 20s, I find it hard to shake the feeling that my life is a pinball machine of relationships and opportunities that I’m hurtling through headfirst, knocking over bystanders and crashing into obstacles, unable to stop for long enough to figure out what I’m doing wrong. It is tempting, in this world... See more
rayne fisher-quann • No Good Alone
And listen, not to get too existential, but that’s sort of all there is to this whole being alive thing, right? We are on Earth for a while. We occupy certain spaces. We meet a bunch of people and make a bunch of decisions that impact both those people and a whole lot of others whom we’ll never meet. And through it all, we get the choice of making ... See more
garrett bucks • The greatest saints in the world
Someone asked, “How’s life?” Such a trivial question, and yet…When I automatically replied that work-is-great-and-San-Francisco-is-nice-thank-you, I noticed for the first time how inert my voice sounded.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
What people do is usually more interesting than why they do it—unless the “why” is really personal,
Charlie Jane Anders • Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories
What should one do? That may seem a strange question, but it's not meaningless or unanswerable. It's the sort of question kids ask before they learn not to ask big questions. I only came across it myself in the process of investigating something else. But once I did, I thought I should at least try to answer it.