— Sometimes I hear people express frustration when for one reason or another they end up “settling” for something, as though whatever is being settled for were, by virtue of the fact that it’s being settled for, beneath that person, not good enough for him, holding him back or away from the richer/better version of that by which he has unfortunately allowed himself to be mired down.
— Yeah I hear people talk about this every now and again. I think people in this situation like to retain the idea that something perfect will still always be out there, waiting for them, even if they may wind up being too lazy to actually go find it; so what they do, they convince themselves that they’re acting sensibly by choosing to stick with what they’ve got, which also allows them to feel as though they’re exercising complete freedom of choice and at the same time leaves intact that notion that there still exists for them a potentially realizable ideal situation that they’ve just consciously given up in favor a simpler, stabler, and more conventional one.
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