The Disturbing Theory About Life That Gives Me Goose Bumps Every Time I Think About It
<p>I have a theory that everything in life is fiction.</p>
<p>And here’s a short list of thoughts on that.</p>
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<li>That’s why storytelling and psychoanalysis are so powerful; we look for narratives that make us feel better.</li>
<li>Defining yourself is fiction; it’s thinking of yourself from one perspective or another.</li>
<li>Success is a fiction.</li>
<li>An idea is fiction that becomes a vision if many people buy and buy into it.</li>
<li>Getting a job depends on the HR person buying your definition of yourself during the interview, aka the story you tell them.</li>
<li>We chase dreams that are fiction until they materialize. And then we look for a new plan, another new novel to pursue.</li>
<li>Hope is a fiction. You need to tell yourself things that haven’t happened yet but that you imagine you’ll be better off with to motivate you to keep going.</li>
<li>Anguish is a fiction you make up about something that hasn’t happened but could happen.</li>
<li>Romantic love is born from the idealization of a person and the projection of the expected future, which is fiction.</li>
<li>Victimhood is a fiction of something with which we suggest ourselves to gain understanding, empathy, and affection from others.</li>
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