First of all, I want to say thanks to all the folks that tipped and rec'd my diary, yesterday. You don't know how much that meant to me and other unemployed kossacks.
Now, after yesterday's diary, which was pretty dreary, I pulled out a book that helps me when I'm feeling blue. I'm not a religious person and I don't do "self-help" books, but my mom gave me a book, last christmas that has helped reorient me countless time, over my past year of employment insecurity.
The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty and unsexy ways, every day.
that is real freedom.
This comes from the book This Is Water, by David Foster Wallace. It's actually a college commencement speech he gave, but it is one of the simplest, most honest, and most profound statements I have ever read.
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