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The person you used to want to be. · Tea With Socrates

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Speaker 1: There is a person that you used to want to be. Maybe they were a musician. Maybe they lived in a different city or stayed in a relationship that ended or took the job you didn't get. Maybe they just wrote poetry in the mornings or ran or kept up with friends who moved away. And at some point, you stopped wanting it.
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And you said something like, honestly, I'm glad it worked out this way. I wouldn't have been happy doing that anyway. Well, here's my question. How would you know the difference between I outgrew that want and I stopped wanting it because I couldn't have it? From the inside, I don't think those feel any different.
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I've looked for the seam, and I can't find one. That's the problem I want to spend today on. Not whether you gave up. I'm only interested in whether you could even tell.