work on one person myself

I work on the one person I can work on, myself, to try to render myself more amenable to creative living in the presence of change, ambiguity, and the erosion of those old certainties

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1. well-trod paths of others
   too many of us spend years, even decades, in pursuit of someone else’s plan for our one precious life … a gap in our lives between where we find
   
2. selfishness is to make claims upon others
   Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live, always aims at creating around it an absolute