Personhoods are staked on the cards dealt and not the hands played, as if we evolved the opposable thumbs of our agency for nothing. In memoirs and reality shows, across infinite Alexandrian scrolls of social media feeds, the unlucky events of life have become the currency of attention and identification.
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Book of the Day
Your job is not about your ego. It's not about getting attention. It's not about making yourself look great. It's about making that person you're working for look great and making their life easier
Daily Stoic
understanding that all these people somehow are kind of my grandparents, are kind of the people that lived a life in a way so incomplete in order for me to have a life that is better than his. They risked their lives with trying to love and trying to fulfill their passion. And all those stories are silenced.
Javier Ambrosi — Fresh Air