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psyc. & health sci.
27 okur puanı
Mart 2024 tarihinde katıldı
“every life contains many millions of decisions. some big, some small. but every time one decision is taken over another, the outcomes differ. an irreversible variation occurs, which in turn leads to further variations.”
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/ “you have as many lives as you have possibilities. there are lives where you make different choices. and those choices lead to different outcomes. if you had done just one thing differently, you would have a different life story.”
Reklam
i once told wendell that mike, my colleague, had said a while back that when we feel fragile, we’re like raw eggs —we crack open and splatter if dropped. but when we develop more resilience, we’re like hard-boiled eggs —we might get dinged up if dropped, but we won’t crack completely and spill all over the place.
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/ over the years, i’ve gone from being a raw egg to a hard-boiled egg with my mother, but sometimes the raw egg in me emerges.
we tend to think that the future happens later, but we’re creating it in our minds every day. when the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. and having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists.
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okur okumaz bu satırları düşünmeye başladım. ne kadar gerçek olduğunu ve bizim bu gerçekten ne kadar da gafil olduğumuzu. istenmedik bir durumla karşılaştığımızda tepkilerimizin ve geri dönüşlerimizin, duygularımızın hatta, hepsinin değilse kesinlikle büyük bir kısımının açıklaması bu satılar olabildiğini.
he said that his family never talked much, read, or shared intimate feelings. they had no communal mythology; no tales of treason, and snow forts. it was a safe existence but not a fairy-tale one.
h
/ “you’re my family,” he would say.
he delighted in them, seeming to appreciate all the qualities that repelled or alienated me from others.
h
smart, he says, incredibly smart. to the point that i adore how your brain works.