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“Nothing is exactly the same for us all. And yet our lives are lived relationally, and so we must factor in others we love as we make plans, as we alter plans as we abandon plans. It's all so complicated, and in different periods different phases of our lives a different balance is required. There's no way to get it perfectly right. There's no one way that is absolutely perfect. If you measure them up against perfection, anything you do will be found wanting... Imagining, planning, doing, maintaining, re-assessing, altering. In the process of all, you carve out a self and the world in which that self resides.” — Shellen Lubin
Nothing is exactly the same for us all.
And yet our lives are lived relationally,
and so we must factor in others we love
as we make plans,
as we alter plans
as we abandon plans.
It's all so complicated,
and in different periods
different phases of our lives
a different balance is required.
There's no way to get it perfectly right.
There's no one way that is absolutely perfect.
If you measure them up against perfection,
anything you do will be found wanting...
Imagining, planning, doing,
maintaining, re-assessing, altering.
In the process of all, you carve out a self
and the world in which that self resides.