We tend to think if you remove a piece of your life it can be replaced with a new, more thoughtfully chosen priority.
But controlling life as a puzzle is a nightmare: pieces shrink, expand, and multiply when you are not looking.
We cannot trade portions of life. Life is rhizomatic and flowing: to remain living it needs boundaries and weeding, not rigidity.
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