Better Strategy

From the inside, it feels like I can do anything, and that finally my life is where I want it to be.

From the outside, it may sound like the ravings of a narcissistic white saviour.

I need to temper my rhetoric and temper my expectations of myself.

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But I cannot give up the fight. Because then what is there to live for?

There are two ways to understand life: Marxian (life is about changing the world) and Levinasian (life is about finding the person out there that loves you). I am firmly in the Marxian camp and the Levinasian interpretation does not register. Must be a right anomie thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4wdbibV3IM