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Something More - by Max Nussenbaum - Candy for Breakfast

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On being a seeker.

Even as a little kid, I was sure there had to be something more to life. At ten or eleven, in Mexico on my family’s first-ever international vacation, I had my first-ever existential crisis. I couldn’t put it into those words at the time—I only knew that all of sudden something felt wrong. I was afraid, but it wasn’t the kind of fear you might experience when encountering a bully or a turbulent plane. This was something deeper and more mysterious, something that emanated from within. It was the sudden, overwhelming awareness that this was all there was, that every day was just going to be…

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