David Foster Wallace, the postmodern novelist, puts it like this: In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is no such thing as … not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of god or spiritual thing to worship. … is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. … Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure, and you will always feel ugly,
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