Is anyone else ever genuinely shocked when you find out you have an impact on someone's life? A coworker can be like "I've missed seeing you" and I'm just like "???? you?? missed me????? My presence has an effect on your daily experience???? i affect things??? What???"
I wish young people would find a creative or intellectual project that keeps them active, even if they never want to work. Draw, read, write, something. Bed-rotting doesn’t seem so bad in youth; it can even be romanticized.
It might not feel that way in middle/old age...
i love watching lectures on youtube from fields i never study formally. i love regularly listening to people who have spent decades thinking about something i have only just encountered on a random afternoon. the world is far larger than the small corner of it i happen to inhabit
Please keep thriftbooks in business. In a time where older versions of books are being pulled off shelves and trying to be erased from the globe entirely, you can purchase older versions of books from that website