I wonder if that moment-to-moment ugh vs. whole life yay is something particularly likely in parents? It aligns with a lot of what I've read about the trade-offs of parenting and the relationship of parenting to happiness.
Cuz I hafta say, I am still letting my inner hedonist drive this bus a lot of the time, and if I've learned anything from mindfulness, it's that if I can't be happy in the moment, I probably can't be happy period. But I don't have kids.
Re The Dispossessed: my favorite novel, period. And the attempted rape scene has always bothered me, but I kind of wonder if it's meant to play out exactly as you say, on purpose. Because it doesn't happen in utopia, it happens on the decadent capitalist world, and I always felt she was trying to suggest that Shevek had been corrupted by the patriarchal culture there. Which in no way excuses it. Which is the point. Maybe? IDK, maybe I'm making excuses, but that's how I always read it.
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Cuz I hafta say, I am still letting my inner hedonist drive this bus a lot of the time, and if I've learned anything from mindfulness, it's that if I can't be happy in the moment, I probably can't be happy period. But I don't have kids.
Re The Dispossessed: my favorite novel, period. And the attempted rape scene has always bothered me, but I kind of wonder if it's meant to play out exactly as you say, on purpose. Because it doesn't happen in utopia, it happens on the decadent capitalist world, and I always felt she was trying to suggest that Shevek had been corrupted by the patriarchal culture there. Which in no way excuses it. Which is the point. Maybe? IDK, maybe I'm making excuses, but that's how I always read it.