211120 What I learned in my studies this morning 2

Crafting? Musing? Play? 

What to call expanded forms? 

I will call them Murray.... 

 
Daily Stoic:

Plus ça change..... 

It's happened before. Pretty much exactly as it happened this time. Pretty much exactly as it will happen again later. 

What is it? All human interaction. Any human event, decision, scheme, or hope. 

There's nothing new under the sun, right?  Offering comfort and frustration in equal measure. 

Why do I continue to consider my life special?  I am unique. No one's ever been as ______ as I am.  Woe is me. Yeah. Right. 

I'm special, but not special. Worthy of respect as human, worthy of praise or castigation per my behavior, yes, but not different in form or habits than any of the 108BB who've come before me. 

Something I may feel is the best thing ever, someone else has seen a thousand times.  Act like you done it before. 

Why do I indulge harmful emotions and reactions and opinions to events uncountable people have survived and, more, been untroubled by, for ages?  If they can do it, I, coproduct of the same evolution and human tendencies, can as well. 

And I can do it with aplomb . . . with a bit of practice. 

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