- I judge people fairly harshly based on what they read or don't read, and other consumption patterns.
- I'm too self-centred for my own good.
- I'm lazy.
- I'm too much of an idealist.
- I lack a healthy level of curiosity.
- I consider myself unworthy of many things.
- I generally prefer not to interact with people.
- I'm good at convincing people I like them and getting them to like me, despite not liking or respecting them one bit.
- There's more, but I don't think you deserve to know more.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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