SarahC comments on I'm scared. - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Mass_Driver 23 December 2010 09:05AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 24 December 2010 04:05:33AM *  8 points [-]

I like the ring of truth in this but I have great difficulty with it. Like, to the point that it's becoming a problem.

Other people stop wanting the impossible, wanting more instant gratification than is good for them, wanting easier solutions than exist, etc., but I never, ever stop wanting all of it. Sometimes I feel like a great hungry maw with an infinite sweet tooth. Utterly unreconciled with the "universal condition of mankind" and unready to grapple with it.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 24 December 2010 10:38:55AM 0 points [-]

Wanting's fine. All you have to do is work on getting it.