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Tenzin Rabyang's avatar

Mother nature’s greatest gift is death.

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Divya Venn's avatar

It’s hard to learn to see it that way. but I agree. I wouldn’t want to be immortal

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Tenzin Rabyang's avatar

The other day I was tryna give my siso some perspective on death being the only reason we value life, just imagining being immortal sucks all the meaning out of everything amidst almost most things being irrelevant anyways😆

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Thomas Alongi's avatar

I'm going to need to go and take a two-hour walk to fully think through the thoughts I had when reading the essay; I'm really glad I read this tonight.

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Divya Venn's avatar

I don’t think you understand how much of a compliment this is, you sincerely made my week and redoubled my motivation to write regularly (which has waned a bit recently)

Thank you!

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Thomas Alongi's avatar

Glad I was able to give you some motivation! I honestly didn't think too hard about what I wrote; I just typed the first thing that came to my mind after reading the essay. I really enjoyed the read and was so deeply engrossed in it that by the time I had made it to the last sentence, I had so many thoughts that I really needed to go on a walk to sort through everything.

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Divya Venn's avatar

it meant a lot bc your reaction is how i react when i encounter an article or podcast that is truly life-changing; *must take time to process bc head is so chock full of new ideas that are worth processing!*

so to hear that my writing did that for someone hit very hard in the best way

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Thomas Alongi's avatar

yeah i know what you mean! i do think that my life and the way i experience or perceive reality has been meaningfully improved in a non-trivial way after reading the essay.

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Dan's avatar

Same, she makes you actually think

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Emmy LeVie's avatar

There's so much in my head right now. This is very insightful and the message can serve a huge master key in most interpersonal matters.

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Venkatesh Varadachari's avatar

Good one Divya.

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Divya Venn's avatar

Thank you😊

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