want what you have - by Isabel - Mind Mine
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you are already in the Inner Ring
The Dinner At The Ball by Adolph Menzel, 1878 C.S. Lewis has this piece of writing called the Inner Ring that I think about often. The core concept is that in any arena of life, at any stage, you will always sense that there is some in-group you are not quite in—a slightly-higher-status, intangible upper tier that you feel just on the cusp of. We vie to belong to it, making significant sacrifices to get inside this Inner Ring. But as soon as we get in, a new one appears. It’s like the Russian dolls that multiply each time you crack one open, or in Lewis’ words: “it is like piercing through…
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