Even for someone like me who is super-smart and gifted in her studies and different from everyone else, in fact superior to the vast majority - even for me life is already all plotted out and so dismal you could cry: no one seems to have thought of the fact that if life is absurd, being a brilliant success has no greater value than being a failure. the goldfish bowl.īut one thing is sure - there's no way I'm going to end up in the goldfish bowl. That might deprive you of a few good moments in your childhood but it would save you a considerable amount of time as an adult - not to mention the fact that you'd be spared at least one traumatic experience, i. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd. People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. All our family acquaintances have followed the same path: their youth spent trying to make the most of their intelligence, squeezing their studies like a lemon to make sure they'd secure a spot among the elite, then the rest of their lives wondering with a flabbergasted look on their faces why all that hopefulness has led to such a vain existence.
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