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Tom White's avatar

“When I think about my friends, it seems obviously true that many of them have achieved their younger selves’ wildest dreams, and yet they don’t seem to be particularly enjoying it.”

Amen. There are many such cases. Two things come to mind:

1) The adage “A thankful heart hath a continual feast.”

2) The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us that what we wanted was what we needed. I think modernity is largely a nightmare because we have everything we want, but nothing we need.

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Kris Gulati's avatar

"I took a picture of the matcha ice cream they gave us at the end of the meal but I was too drunk on sake to properly t taste it. "

Weirdly enough, this added to the reading experience in a positive way :)!

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