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Happy 10/22

Funny how this date has two wildly different meanings to me.

Plenty of people have lived entirely normal and contented lives without knowing about this date in history. Almost everyone I know, in fact, is blissfully ignorant.

Takeaway? The event and its follow-on consequences, which distantly touched me, are not #Lindy.

The other meaning? Trivial and associated in my mind with everything good about life.

This is a good contrast to keep in mind: a random sequence of numbers (or anything, really) can convey any meaning that you choose.

So choose your meaning wisely, and remember that you’re injecting the meaning by your own thoughts. The meaning is not native to the thing, memory, event, etc. that you are contemplating.

Or maybe just choose to inject no meaning. You’ve had that experience: feeling terrible about something and then coming to see it as inert, just a feature of the (mental) landscape. Acceptance.