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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

This was a much better read than I originally expected and it is giving me Strong Feelings that I shall tweet about now https://t.co/cr2h3F7epL

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

Succinct way of putting it! (Also I love the title) https://t.co/eC9Q01fSgt https://t.co/PIOLhMMLYK

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

I think there are two things that bother me abt my life. One is that I'm not disciplined enough, which is my oldest problem (working on it)

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

The other, which has only become an issue over the past 5 years, is that I have found myself taking fewer risks and being less bold

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

The first does not surprise me. I'll probably whine about it on my deathbed. Even Da Vinci supposedly said he wasted his time. Eternal issue

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

But the 2nd I am now very concerned about. Somewhere along the line I started keeping my head down and playing it safe. Massive dissonance

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

I think the reasons are straightforward & mundane. I got married, bought a house, work for a paycheck, have bills to pay. Adulty things.

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

I have somehow incrementally found myself, through a series of rational decisions, locked up in a psychic prison of my own design

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

I haven't done anything big& bold in years. This frustrates and troubles me. I am better positioned to do and write bold things but have not

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

This has been a recurring motif lately: take bigger risks, bolder actions. They won't happen randomly as much so they must be planned

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 8 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

Going to bed now but I will try to keep this in mind. It's just kind of shocking that this is who I've let myself become. I can+will be more

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