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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Political animals (with Leah Garcés)

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

What I'm Giving Up Is Real

How do you manage just the scale of what you're working on and the pain that you've opened yourself up to in it? How do you go home and have a normal day? It's really tough. I definitely have my dark moments and most activists do, where you think, what am I doing? Why don't I just enjoy my kids? They're growing up. My oldest is 11 and without a doubt in seven years, he's out of here. That's like terrifying. The only choice for me is to try to reduce suffering. As a very Buddhist concept, but suffering existed before I was born. It will exist after. The best you can do is try to reduce

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