It's tomorrow, dear readers! Funny how time seems to move when parts of the world are breaking down. Thanks for your patience over this long night.
Yesterday I said we'd talk more about what we, the failures, get out of our relationships breaking down. What makes it worth having our lives go "kablooey!"
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I'm prompted by this quote from Netflix's former culture director, Patty McCord, who talked about her early professional experience during an interview. Her first real job, poignant as a first love for many of us, was doing manual labor at a lumber mill. In the interview, McCord briefly describes the experience, noting that the role required her to find a workaround for her slight physique. She then notes, "what I learned from that job was that I did not want to do that work, but I knew that I could."
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Powerful statement, right?
One thing we get from failed relationships, then, if we can all be poised as McCord: in failure, we always learn better what we want and what we do not. We also learn that we can live through situations we don't like. Sometimes, with a workaround, we even manage just as well as the rest.
Neat.
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Stay tuned tomorrow for more lessons in defeat!