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What did a friend do that showed you that you could live differently?
Another person's example can make a possibility available without offering advice.
Your answer
A little context
A friend quits a job everyone envied and opens a tiny bakery, and over the next year you watch them become someone who laughs more. They never tell you to do anything. But something you had filed under impossible quietly moves to the list of things a person could do.
Nearby questions
- Can you choose who you love?Falling in love sounds like something that happens to you. Staying in love sounds like a decision. Arranged marriages bet on the second.
- Is anything unforgivable?Some people forgive a murderer in court. Others never forgive a friend who insists they did nothing wrong.
- Can you love someone you don't respect?Care, admiration and respect usually travel together. Sometimes you are left with only the first.
- Should you put your own people first?You can save someone you love or five strangers, but not both. Almost everyone would save their own; impartial arithmetic says five is more than one.
- If someone you love committed a serious crime, would you turn them in?The Duke of She boasted that in his country a son would testify against a father who stole a sheep. Confucius answered that where he came from, fathers cover for sons and sons for fathers, and that this is what uprightness looks like.
