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Everyone & Lost and Found

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

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When You Lose Something, There's an Ark of Loss

When you lose something, what's the emotional journey you go on? Is there like an ark of loss? We often think that we're upset because we lost something, right? But kirkegard suggests that actually, we're not upset. We're actually despairing over ourselves. When you lose the thing, you no longer get to be the self that you wanted to be with the thing. You didn't lose a part of yourself. You lost the whole, entire self that you got to be wit the nail clippers. That means that you chose these things to take with you. These are the things that make it possible for you to be you. And so now there

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