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Jimmy's avatar

"...all of this knowledge isn’t making us any happier or wiser." Boy, howdy. I've been wrestling with that one a lot lately. My entire adult life, I've been trying to answer the questions that have been burning holes through my soul and have yet to hit bottom. I need to know, probably obsessively. I don't know if it means I'm wiser with age or if I'm a dunce for not figuring it out sooner, but I'm ever so slightly beginning to understand that it's OK to not have the answer to everything. That's a really uncomfortable place to be, for someone who has to understand at least the basics of everything. But I'm realizing I'm happier accepting that I don't know, and can't know, some of these answers I've been seeking than I ever was chasing after them and thinking I was so close that they were just around the corner.

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Kris's avatar

"The critic is technically right, but he’s now marked safe from wisdom."

Whoa. That's a good one.

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