Is is as if life or reality itself has had it in mind all along to unravel the very design i have been trying all along to impose on it.
We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time__nauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb.
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We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time__nauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb.
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