Seriousness

a blog by peter lu

This blog started as a way for me to tell my younger self things I have learned. It feels like the more I go through life, the more I learn all these lessons that I wish someone had told me years ago. Today I want to tell him that he should be overly serious about something. What does being overly serious mean? I don't mean serious in the sense of not being very funny, although I recognize I am also not a very funny writer. It means to treat something as important to a degree that most people consider it to be illogical to care about it that much. The amount you care is disproportionate to…

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