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🕊️ The Illusion of Control
There's a Death Cab for Cutie lyric: 'every plan is a tiny prayer to Father Time.' Life is inherently volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, and while we all implicitly know this, we still fear uncertainty and strive to create order out of chaos — 'our way of organizing the cacophony
There's a Death Cab for Cutie lyric: 'every plan is a tiny prayer to Father Time.' Life is inherently volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous, and while we all implicitly know this, we still fear uncertainty and strive to create order out of chaos — 'our way of organizing the cacophony of reality into the cadence of the heartbeat. Regular. Predictable. Certain.' A thoughtful, affirming reflection from Lawrence Yeo for anyone who has freedom but feels unfree, or otherwise struggles with allowing life to be.
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