“Friendship happens on the way to something else. If you “try to meet new people” it feels weird and forced. The more you aim for friendship, the more it eludes you. But if you aim to learn or achieve something with others, friendship happens naturally during the shared pursuit.”
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David Brooks, trying to figure out how American dating and marriage has gone wrong. He nails it: Aronson concluded that she had moved from the Russian Regime of Fate to the American Regime of Choice. “The most important requirement for choice is not the availability of multiple options,” she writes in Aeon magazine. “It is […]
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Alcoholics Anonymous (The Big Book), pp. 449-451. CHANGING LENSES ‘Shakespeare said, “All the world’s a stage, all the men and women merely players.” He forgot to mention that I was the chief critic. I was always able to see the Raw in every person, every situation. And I was always glad to point it out, […]
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