trivialities - Nixon Hanna
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a struggle to resolve the conflict between happiness and altruism
it feels weird working in a space where people appear to have such a lack of romanticism about their life. i guess this is true of a lot of fields but feels especially weird when we all claim life is so valuable that we want to spend out lives ensuring it for the rest of humanity. we care about about this so much that we analyze everything and try to make this world as good as it possibly can be and do so in the most effective way we can find. yet, we barely seem to value the life we already do have. we don’t show appreciation for ourselves. we don’t display affection for each other, for…
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