I do it sometimes when things really are going wrong and there's no good reason for it. It feels good. It's cathartic. And it's inanimate. No one gets hurt.
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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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