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His college advisor criticizing his earring reminds me of the time my college advisor saw I was drinking tea and criticized how Celestial Seasoning tea bags are more dust than tea and I should be drinking tea brewed from real tea leaves and I almost had to be like "Bruh this is all I can afford for my lunch today is this mug of a Celestial Seasonings tea I got from the library, but go off."

The idea that anxiety is a reminder of our humanity is an interesting perspective.

"This is fascinating. The author has a (vague, tentative) belief that there is a God and he relates existential principles to principles of faith through a discussion of Kierkegaard. I need to investigate Kierkegaard further to really know what I make of him. I feel like I can finally define existentialism, and the chapter on anxiety was so simple and yet so helpful: anxiety can be "done well" or "done poorly.""

This is fascinating. The author has a (vague, wavering) belief that there is a God and he relates existential principles to principles of faith through a discussion of Kierkegaard. I need to investigate Kierkegaard further to really know what I make of him. I feel like I can finally define existentialism, and the chapter on anxiety was so simple and yet so helpful: anxiety can be "done well" or "done poorly."

Great, I relate to the first to chapters pretty well so far