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is this unusual? are people okpic.twitter.com/z6evJJvrjT
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I insist that everyone stop freaking out at themselves immediately you are probably fundamentally fine and Good and if you are not, fretting constantly is probably not helping your situation and dont you dare start fretting about fretting either!!https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1295432100397461505?s=19 …
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Ok here is an idea perhaps I generally tacitly and sometimes explicitly view life as operating in a narrative. Is this "true" who cares What is important is that without some kind of narrative for your life you will probably go nuts and may already have done
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Naturally life is different than a play because (i) you are already cast in your role, (ii) you simply must determine the scope of your part within your abilities and circumstances
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Maybe much dismay can be thought of as resulting from a mismatch between ones "actual self" whatever that means and the narrative in which one is casting themselves
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ie youre probably better off saying "who am I" and finding a narrative role that makes good use of the answer to that question than you are saying "this is the role I have decided I shall play" and bludgeoning yourself when it doesnt work with your character idk work in progress
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hmmm "I need to be X" vs "I am someone who incidentally needs to be X to be who I am" think about adaptively wearing masks and transcending them but start with the mask? idk I should actually read Impro someday extremely disorganized and inchoate, sorrypic.twitter.com/ppLq2EEZ3x
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being vs becoming
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I should really, really read Montaigne--any recommendation on where to start?
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shamefully, I have no idea. This is the epigraph to one of my favorite novels, NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON
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