Whenever I mention “work” or “stress,” I don’t really mean it. Viktor Frankl, in his essay about being a prisoner at Auschwitz, draws an analogy between suffering and gas, in that they both fill up whatever space they’re put into. He says suffering completely fills the consciousness and soul, whether the suffering is great or small. This man, who lived through the worst suffering any humans have ever endured, says suffering is absolutely relative. I guess that’s true for all people who suffer, but I’m in showbiz, so I don’t suffer. I get annoyed and pissed off, and those things are not noble
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