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“What she had mistakenly assumed was her personality — driven, cranky, anxious and sad — turned out to be a deformative effect of her environment. It’s not as if any of us wants to live like this, any more than any one person wants to be part of a traffic jam or stadium trampling or the hierarchy of cruelty in high school — it’s something we collectively force one another to do.”
amen.
This whole essay (The ‘Busy’ Trap) is just wonderful. Especially the part where he mentions making a conscious decision years ago to choose TIME over MONEY, because, well, duh:
“My own resolute idleness has mostly been a luxury rather than a virtue, but I did make a conscious decision, a long time ago, to choose time over money, since I’ve always understood that the best investment of my limited time on earth was to spend it with people I love.”
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This whole essay (The ‘Busy’ Trap) is just wonderful. Especially the part where he mentions making
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I read this too, and my takeaway was leaving NYC = boyfriends!!!!!!!!!!!
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