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Be well, and I hope you love the show today.
So last time on the show,
we talked about a quote from Kierkegaard that was sort of interwoven throughout the subject matter of the episode.
Maybe you remember it.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Well, we're going to talk a lot about what Kierkegaard means when he's saying that today,
but I think to understand what he's saying in its entirety,
it's necessary for us to look at another quote by Kierkegaard,
written years apart from that one and a completely different work of his.
And for the sake of it, appealing to our modern ears that are accustomed to,
you know, not talking like we're wearing Coonskin hats in the 1800s.
I'm going to paraphrase it a bit, and it goes like this.
The biggest danger that you can face in this life is losing yourself.
The reason why is because it can leave you or as Kierkegaard says,
it can pass off in the world without you even realizing it.
It's different in that way because everything else you lose, whether it's $5 or your wife or your phone,
all those things, it's immediately evident to you that you've lost them when you lose them.
I mean, if you lose your phone, like you're getting into jammies at the end of the night,