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your mentor
✏️ “A good enigma is meant to help you find yourself. Once solved, it loses its purpose.” 🔗 View Highlight
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some of these wishes are difficult,
✏️ One night of wishes encompasses getting rid of gender, religion AND capitalism. Wild night there. 🔗 View Highlight
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When asked to make someone immune to heartbreak, I’m reminded of the received wisdom about the character-building value of suffering. It’s the kind of thinking that can get you through hell but also serves power that demands you stay gracious as you wipe spit from your eye. Don’t have the grit to reframe your exploitation as self-mythology? Sounds like a you problem. Structural inequality? No! It’s a personal growth journey. And surely living in bliss and beauty would get tiresome. Wouldn’t I be denying them that ecstatic sense of triumph that only really comes from having well and truly made it through the shit? It’s always felt a little grim to me to consider joy as desirable only because it signals a cessation of pain, but there’s something in that, still. And what about self-acceptance?
✏️ This is coming up as I deal with a wish to protect one’s daughter from suffering. 🔗 View Highlight
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wishes are going to keep getting weirder and harder.
✏️ One wish is about making smoking good for you. The person is addicted and can’t quit, but also says this is a no brainer! Save millions of lives.. How could I not? 🔗 View Highlight
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Someone else just asked me to cure their cancer so they can get healthy enough to murder the bastard who stole their life’s work.
✏️ What a complicated one to actually face.. Grant only this one person reprieve from cancer, but purely so they can kill someone else. Granted, writing it out makes it feel less complicated. 🔗 View Highlight
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let a child become a hero. He wants to help people wherever he goes. More good sounds good I think, cutting the braid. He promises he’ll finish school first but I’m half convinced I’ve unleashed an eight year old Don Quixote on the world.
✏️ Hah same! 🔗 View Highlight
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agree to make two parents stop arguing. I initially evoke the Robin Williams’ Genie defence. I can’t make anyone fall in love, nor back in love. But the way it’s phrased, “make them coexist in harmony, focus on the things they love about each other”, feels hard to say no to. I agree.
✏️ I said no to this one, mainly thinking about the whole Witcher thing and then being in love because of a wish. I suppose this is different, but only slightly so. 🔗 View Highlight