The Tragic Tragedy of Wanting to Climb Up and Away the Gift of the Human Experience

"I feel like we can spend our whole lives just trying to like cope with the fact that it's so magnificently, awesomely epic," he says. "Our shed pain is so profoundly humanizing." The author has experienced this rise and fall of people who get their trauma from time-to-time versus those who don't. We're often conditioned to seek liberation by seeking out bad things in life as a form of self-loathing or an excuse for not doing what we need to do.

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