Some side-quests

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+date: 2017-10-19
+weight: 1
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+A friend asked Maddy: what is the importance of tension?
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+Maddy said: I don't know
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+The friend looked sad and went away.
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+When the friend came back, they asked: what is the importance of tension?
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+Maddy said: I know-
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+But the friend cut her off angrily and left in a huff.
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+Later, the friend asked Maddy: what is the importance of tension?
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+Maddy said: I know: I don't know
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+Then they sat and chatted over a cup of tea.
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+<!-- Tension is explainable only through admission that one doesn't know all of it. One may know that two things exist in opposition of each other, but one will never know both things and the tension from both sides. The weighing of options is never done without a decision having already been made. Tension is unnamable. -->

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+date: 2017-10-19
+weight: 2
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+a friend asked Maddy: why do you drink tea?
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+Maddy said: i like it. it's tasty, it makes me feel good.
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+the friend said: well that's dumb.
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+Maddy went and drank tea.
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+the friend asked: why do you drink tea?
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+Maddy said: i don't know.
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+the friend said: well that's dumb.
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+Maddy went and drank tea.
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+the friend asked: why do you drink tea?
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+Maddy said: i like it. it's tasty, it makes me feel good.
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+the friend laughed and clapped delightedly, and said: perfect
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+then sat to drink tea with Maddy.
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+<!-- Acknowledge the pointlessness of the things you do. You do the work, and then you forget about it. -->

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+date: 2017-10-19
+weight: 3
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+A friend asked Maddy: why are you coating yourself with grease?
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+Maddy said: so that when I run through a field, no dirt will stick to me, and I won't get poked by thorns.
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+Maddy ran through the field, and wound up covered in dirt and scratches.
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+The friend said: better to not run.
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+<!-- The more Maddy tries to avoid worrying and thoughts, the more they plague her. Better to not try, to lose oneself in the task. The running does itself, and Maddy is lost. -->

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+date: 2017-10-19
+weight: 4
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+Maddy built a sand castle and it was washed away.
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+The first friend was sad about the sand castle for Maddy, and said: better to not build the sand castle and risk further sorrow.
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+The second friend said this was good, because Maddy saw adversity and built the castle anyway.
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+The third said this was good because Maddy was able to acknowledge the castle and let it pass.
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+A fourth said: better to have never built the castle. The sand is itself, the wave is itself, and Maddy remains.
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+The fifth was helping build a bigger, better sand castle.
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+<!-- The first is naive and confuses the sand castle for the work.
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+The second mistakes the struggle against the wave as a struggle against a greater idea.
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+The third sees too much Maddy in the equation. She is not bettering herself though adversity, she is building sand castles.
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+The fourth sees a truth, but forgets that truth is not static
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+The fifth does the work. -->

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+date: 2017-10-19
+weight: 5
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+A friend asked Maddy: why are you nailing boards together?
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+Maddy said: I'm building a house to live in.
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+When the friend came back later, there was an awkward jumble of sticks nailed together on the ground. They said: well that was dumb.
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+Some time later, the friend visited Maddy and asked: why are you frowning?
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+Maddy said: I paid someone to build me a house, but it's round, upside down, and a mile to the east of where it should be.
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+The friend shrugged and said: well that was dumb
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+Some time later, the friend visited Maddy and found her reading on the front porch of a cozy home. They said: did you build this?
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+Maddy said: no, but I did my part.
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+The friend laughed and sat down next to Maddy to read with her.
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+<!-- Maddy tries to do everything actively, to fix her broken mind, and fails. Maddy tries to do everything passively and pays sometime else, and fails, as how could they know the universal, when Maddy can only tell them the particulars? Maddy succeeds when she does her work and others do theirs. -->

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+date: 2019-08-14
+weight: 6
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+> Are you having fun?
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+Yes.
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+> You know that I'm not the friend, right?
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+I do.
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+> Carry on.
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+No, I'm finished for now.

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