Read this:
The “Once in a Lifetime” Paradox
A life that chases rare experiences is all breadth and no depth.
https://markmanson.net/the-once-in-a-lifetime-paradox
The line that hit me in the gut:"... it’s easy to keep loading up your life with opportunity after opportunity, meanwhile disconnecting yourself from what makes those opportunities worthwhile in the first place.
I think this is what often happens to the lawyer who works 80-hour weeks until she is fifty and then one day wakes up wondering what it was all for. Or the hustler who climbs his way up to become VP in a major company, only to realize that his kids are grown and he never really got to know them."
Yeah, that last line.
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