A good way to measure how much you've grown in life is to measure number of times dominant *type* of relationship in your life has changed..
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...Normal scripts give you 7 canned stages: 1. Parents, 2. Friends 3. Self 4. Romantic partners, 5. Employer, 6. Children 7. Grandkids
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... so you only start becoming a unique person if your number exceeds 7, or you break from the canned script at some point
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they are in the noise zone unless you enter into deeper collaborations or something
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talking is never enough, no matter how deep or how much. Shared risk/hell-and-back-together in some sense is needed for meaning
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.@oliverihloff uniqueness is a marker of self-actualization rather than of inherent value. Otherwise self-actualization would be a formula.
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Wait so is a stage a type in this case? Believe #8 would be religious/higher power/your God

