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Oct 26, 2023Liked by Grant Shillings

Great ideas to ponder. I’ve found that keeping my life balanced requires constant tweaking. Do whatever you need to in order to refill your well because your essays are so unique, interesting, and entertaining!

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Thank you so much! I really do think it’s a constant battle. One of the things that keeps life interesting.

That makes me think of a great quote from the book I’ve been reading, Story:

“Story is metaphor for life, and to be alive is to be in seemingly perpetual conflict. As Jean-Paul Sartre expressed it, the essence of reality is scarcity, a universal and eternal lacking. There isn’t enough of anything in this world to go around. Not enough food, not enough love, not enough justice, and never enough time. Time, as Heidegger observed, is the basic category of existence. We live in its ever-shrinking shadow, and if we are to achieve anything in our brief being that lets us die without feeling we’ve wasted our time, we will have to go into heady conflict with the forces of scarcity that deny our desires.“

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