Know your number. If you don__ know it you might forget who you are.
People want to share but they usually don__.__eople don__ talk to each other about real things because they__e afraid of how they__l be judged. Or they think other people don__ have the capacity to carry the burden of what they have to say. They see the compulsion to put that burden out in the world as a show of weakness. But all that stuff is what makes us human; more than that, it__ what makes being human interesting and funny. How we got away from that, I don__ know. But fuck that: We__e built to deal with shit. We__e built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It__ what separates us from the animals and why we envy and love animals so much. We__e aware of it all and have to process it. The way we each handle being human is where all the good stories, jokes, art, wisdom, revelations, and bullshit come from.
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People want to share but they usually don__.__eople don__ talk to each other about real things because they__e afraid of how they__l be judged. Or they think other people don__ have the capacity to carry the burden of what they have to say. They see the compulsion to put that burden out in the world as a show of weakness. But all that stuff is what makes us human; more than that, it__ what makes being human interesting and funny. How we got away from that, I don__ know. But fuck that: We__e built to deal with shit. We__e built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It__ what separates us from the animals and why we envy and love animals so much. We__e aware of it all and have to process it. The way we each handle being human is where all the good stories, jokes, art, wisdom, revelations, and bullshit come from.
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