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1. Language is just a tool our species uses to act through others, invented as a necessary means to protect and manage children and that has evolved to other us
by motohagiography 6y ago
1. Language is just a tool our species uses to act through others, invented as a necessary means to protect and manage children and that has evolved to other uses, but it is a narrow keyhole through which to experience the world, or to express it. Most suffering is an artifact of it, and most joy is inexpressible in it.
2. Regret is almost always about what you didn't do, and rarely about what you chose freely or decided yourself.
3. Understand the effect of compounding in every endeavour.
4. There is no 4.
- AstralStorm 6y agoThere is 4 for everyone, called Death. Make sure you'll enjoy it, both the transformative metaphorical one and the literal one. If you're lucky, you'll stare into it sooner than later and become better for it. (When you're old, it's hard to do anything about it.) Once you get it, you will know how to live your life to fullest while not leaving a debt and cleanup to others.