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But the lesson there, the nugget of truth within the paradox, was that happiness was comparative, not absolute. And this meant that if you could just outlast the other guy— if you could hold off even 10 mins before opening the cork — then at least you wouldn’t be the fool who drank the shitty wine. 🍷
— Jan 04, 2026 06:38PM
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Aristotle‘s argument about how any living being, even the most primitive organism, was animated by an idea of good. Even the plant turned its face towards the sun. Even the tiniest ant sought food; the brainless worm sought soil. It was also easy for a living creatures, all except people, except people like her, who had a knack for seeking only that which made them miserable.
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That wrath was not merely external; was not just a screaming raving tornado of destruction. Sometimes you swallowed it down like a hot coal. Sometimes it only ever burned you, slowly, from the inside out, until you choked.
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We bear the same relationship to the version of ourselves from ten years ago as we might to a siblings.
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Everyone else lived in such an ossified world. They simply took the rules given to them. They were interested only in articulating their own limits; they moved about us if in stone.
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