"That's not a belief. It's a fact."
What if it doesn't mean anything? A couple of weeks ago, I was watching Ted Lasso when a quote from Marcus Aurelius came across the screen: “Reject the sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.” I paused it. Because I agree. But I'd take it even further. What if the injury never existed outside of the story you created about what happened? Something happens. Then, almost instantaneously, we compare what happened to what we believe should have happened. And that's where it gets...
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