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> Everyone will probably have a different experience with their videos, he says, but he says self-reflection is never a bad thing.

People's infinite capacity to forget things is both a blessing and a curse.

Be prepared, when reminiscing about the good times, to be reminded of some equally bad times.

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“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining it its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.” -From the opening paragraph of ‘The Call of Cthulhu’, H. P. Lovecraft

Love how Lovecraft's writing is weirdly relevant to today's interconnected world. If he was born today he would probably be working on pattern recognition and machine learning to "piece together the dissociated knowledge to open up terrifying vistas of reality".

Or writing angry posts on StormFront.

Could write books about all that was wrong with him... Yet he would probably get bored with StormFront faster than with actual science.

> Be prepared, when reminiscing about the good times, to be reminded of some equally bad times.

And the enormous quantity of time spent doing nothing memorable, good or bad.

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