On a larger scale, you can fall into the trap of viewing your whole life this way, interpreting all the things you’re actually doing with your days as one extended series of interruptions or distractions from what you think you’re meant to be doing with them. Of course you might legitimately dislike certain aspects of your job, or your life. But going through the world with the default belief that it’s full of people or things that need holding at bay is a self-fulfilling prophecy. It makes ever more people and things feel like they must indeed be held at bay, if you’re ever to get a moment to
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