HeyJaredSarah's Thoughts
There's more to life than meets the eye. I write about emotions, politics and the nature of reality
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Hoarding the Wealth of Nations (opens the original)
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Yesterday I was feeling a little down, wondering about my own worth in this world. Since having children, I’ve earned very little money each year, sometimes no money at all. It’s easy for me to imagine that in society’s eyes, that makes me less valuable, and when I take on that perspective as my own, it leaves me feeling defensive, angry and depressed.In contemplating the nature of worth, I realized how limited and constraining it is to use currency to define it. Currency is a useful tool in our
A few requests for God (opens the original)
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Although I see life as a great mystery which does not preclude divinity and arguably seems likely to include it, I don’t really subscribe to a particular belief or theology. Conceptually however I find it easy to imagine the God of my childhood, a benevolent figure looking down on me from the heavens. When I find myself struggling emotionally, my thoughts become very inarticulate. I often don’t know what is wrong or why I’m feeling so bad. I don’t have clear reasons I can point to, or particular
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