I have examined and tested more philosophies of life than some can name (I have a restless mind), but one retains my respect: pessimism.
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When I say pessimism, it's not in the sense of a bitter old person or a listless young fool. I mean the deliberate curbing of mania.
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Most of my life, I've struggled with mood swings. Calling it a "disorder" would be insensitive to manic depressives, but it's been rough.
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Because of this particular weakness, I've been a student both of the Cult of Positivity and the Buddhist obsession with suffering.
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I have partaken in the excesses of both paths, and I have rejected both. As spoils, I took hedonism from one and meditation from the other.
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