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We spend so much time waiting for life to start for the right job, the right relationship, the right moment to finally feel like ourselves. But life doesn’t arrive all at once; it seeps in quietly through the ordinary. If you’re not careful, you’ll keep postponing living, and one day you’ll realize it already happened while you were rehearsing for... See more
hasif 💌substack.comKnowledge of the world isn’t the same as experiencing the world. Why does online connection so often seem to lack aliveness, as compared to encounters with the world of flesh-and-blood people, nature, and material things? This paragraph from Karl Ove Knausgaard struck me as eloquent: “It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images
... See moreWith all due respect, we have it pretty good. Our problems are boring.
Maggie Appleton • Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
Sometimes it's harder, sometimes there are moments where you're like, man, I really wish I could escape this moment and go check Instagram or something, but instead I'm just going to sit here and my kid's crying and dinner's terrible because the kids are just being total jerks and I'm tired and not feeling great and my wife is upset because she's... See more
J.E. Petersen • Uncomfortable on Purpose
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