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And it’s true. We don’t survive the trials of life we just molt into the next version of ourselves.
If a certain transformation is going un-completed because it feels like death, it can be helpful to recognize that it is death. That’s no illusion.
To truly live life to the fullest, one has to sacrifice their self to a future person again and again and again. When you finally get there, it won’t be as the person you are now.
I tried sacrificing myself to a future person once. But the future person had the same feelings, interests, and shortcomings. Then the future person realized herself as being no better than the person who sacrificed herself to her.
This too shall pass
Me: This too shall pass
My circumstances: YOU SHALL NOT PASS
And it’s true. We don’t survive the trials of life we just molt into the next version of ourselves.
If a certain transformation is going un-completed because it feels like death, it can be helpful to recognize that it is death. That’s no illusion.
To truly live life to the fullest, one has to sacrifice their self to a future person again and again and again. When you finally get there, it won’t be as the person you are now.
I tried sacrificing myself to a future person once. But the future person had the same feelings, interests, and shortcomings. Then the future person realized herself as being no better than the person who sacrificed herself to her.
IRS agent: You have thousands of dollars of overdue taxes
Me: This too shall pass
With enough time it will.
Source: my wife works for a tax authority
Reminds me of Louis CK’s joke about suicide.
You get a letter from the DMV: “You have to appear at such and such …”
“No I don’t”
Like a kidney stone
This has been my motto for years but now I have incurable cancer in the brain so I’m looking for a new one…
Will happen. Happening. Happened.
So what is it that you intend to do before you lose the capacity to do things?
All the things.