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An idle mind is the devil’s workshop, so they say. Which is also to say that one’s being, in its most basic, fundamental condition, is that of anguish. That to sit with one’s self, alone with one’s thoughts, is to experience the nausea of existing as one’s self. It’s as if instead of becoming nauseous from motion in life, we become nauseas from motionlessness. Thus, our default mode is misery, and everything is but an effort of distraction.
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