@adele_bloch loved how all these tips are about relaxing and “lowering the bar” in a good sense. you don’t have to organize a great gatsby-style ball every time you want to hang out with friends, just sticking around is enough.
The greatest evil of modernity is the collective delusion that everyone can start over, that any life, once wasted in its particular, irreversible way, can still be renewed like a field left fallow, or a forgiven debt. We betray others by telling them that they still have time.