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2021-10-16

  • Daily Log:

    • How do you know what you have is what you want? #thoughts

      "We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come...we live everything as it comes, without warning" - Milan Kundera #quotes

      • "ill-prepared for the privilege of living" - Wislawa Szymborska #quotes

      "Our lived lives might become a protracted mourning for, or an endless tantrum about, the lives we were unable to live. But the exemptions we suffer, whether forced or chosen, make us who we are" - Adam Phillips #quotes

      • A fulfilling life requires difficulty because between where we are now and where we wish to be one day, there is pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation

      • In today's culture where FOMO is driving force behind people's actions - it is important to revisit the importance of boredom

        • How the un-lived lives illuminates the priorities and values of the lives we do live
        • So much of our "mental life" is about the lives we are not living, the lives we are missing out on, the lives we could be leading but for some reason we are not
        • The fantasies we long for are making us sad and anxious when living our real life
        • Should we give time and effort to examine such lives?

        "We are always haunted by the myth of our potential, of what we might have it in ourselves to be or do... We share our lives with the people we have failed to be" #quotes

      • The un-lived lives reveal themselves most obvious in our envy of others

      • Embracing the fact we are a cosmic accident and recognizing our inherent insufficiencies allows us to start feeling the fullness of life

    • Pho restaurants with numbers usually denote the year the family immigrated from Vietnam during the war or to commemorate the formation of South Vietnam #til2021

  • Retrospective::
    • One week ago: [[October 9th, 2021]]
    • One month ago: [[September 16th, 2021]]
    • One quarter ago: [[July 16th, 2021]]
    • One year ago: [[October 16th, 2020]]
  • Daily Stoic::
    • Stoicism doesn't encourage any kind of "saving" of others, but you should always set a good example