Let's Talk About Blame and the Extramarital Affair
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JFK once said that we would choose to go to the moon, not because the tasks were easy, but because they were hard. Maybe that’s easy to say when it’s a glorified mission like the moon landing. But when that mission involves stumbling towards knowledge we were never exposed to as children, or ever before in our entire lives, or saying uncomfortable things to our spouses that, once said, cannot be taken back, choosing to do the harder thing seems scary and fraught with peril. Sometimes, we can’t choose to do the harder thing, because we literally have no idea how.
Let's Talk About Blame and the Extramarital Affair
Let's Talk About Blame and the Extramarital…
Let's Talk About Blame and the Extramarital Affair
JFK once said that we would choose to go to the moon, not because the tasks were easy, but because they were hard. Maybe that’s easy to say when it’s a glorified mission like the moon landing. But when that mission involves stumbling towards knowledge we were never exposed to as children, or ever before in our entire lives, or saying uncomfortable things to our spouses that, once said, cannot be taken back, choosing to do the harder thing seems scary and fraught with peril. Sometimes, we can’t choose to do the harder thing, because we literally have no idea how.