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the only mindset you’ll ever need to play the game of life
there’s an intimacy that faith and confidence share. diouana woman live their lives nestled in this sweetness. from here, we develop the strength to play the game of life by our own rules. there’s just no better way to play.
a show i’ve recently become obsessed with is the wire. it’s a story about imperfect people living in imperfect circumstances. to that end, it’s a human story. the narrative thread throughout all five seasons of the show is this understanding among all the characters that the conditions they find themselves in is really just one big game. in the immortal words of omar little, the show’s outlaw anti hero, “it’s all in the game.”
if you do not choose to intentionally play the game of life, it will play you. it was carl jung, the spiritual successor to everyone’s favorite psychoanalyst,
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