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There’s a reason why we like what we call “things”

31Mar08

While inadvertently listening to Oprah talking about recessions, what to worry about, what to prepare for, I overheard a conversation she was having with a caller who video-conferenced in. The fan was talking about how a car is transportation, and in an important way isn’t exactly an extension of oneself but still expresses one’s personality, [...]

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in brief:

Sometimes I wish we could freeze a person in time and examine, in a very comprehensive way, how any one person’s thoughts and experiences have lead them to see the world in the exact way they perceive it. Why any one person is exactly where they are, when they could be in an infinite number of other places, thinking an infinite number of other things.
I’m here because I’ve come to believe that we all have a way of learning something from everything we experience. It’s not always big. It’s not always what we expect it to be. We might think that it’s contrary to something we already know. Or believe. But it’s always something.
-Kyle
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There’s a reason why we like what we call “things”

in brief:

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