We think we know each other, but after years of mutual involvement with someone we can still be surprised. We think we know ourselves, but we don't always know what we are really capable of. Such discoveries are not always comforting. They may challenge our view of life and add to a sense of instability. But they are also reassuring. You, for example, now think you know all you will ever know about a set of circumstances in your emotional life and the options that stem from these. It may be time to think again.
Most people seem to worry far more about wasting money than they do about wasting time. Which of these two commodities, though, is really the most precious? Yet while it is undoubtedly possible to squander cash, it is much more arguable whether time can ever be truly misused. You've lately been worrying more than you need to about what's the right thing to do in a sensitive situation.
There's no business like show business like no business I know...' so goes the great Irving Berlin song. It is always performed as a high-kicking celebration of gaiety but the words are full of irony and agony. 'You get word before the show has started that your favorite uncle died at dawn. Top of that, your pa and ma have parted, you're broken-hearted, but you go on...' There's now a part of a particular story in your emotional life a part of you doesn't want to go on with. But you're going to go on. And it's going to be fine.
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