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Oliver Burkeman: What if I never change?

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The Emotional Avoidance of Imperfection

I think there is a sort of inherent sadness, or loss, am, about about anything being created. If you want to create things, you're goig to have to find a way to e live with it, instead of avoid it. There are certain choices to be made, er, between those incommensurate goals. And so yes, either in that sense, or just in the sense that you can always envision everything being perfect and and you can't. Nobody can actually make it perfect.

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