Goodbye Lindsay

Shain Slepian
3 min readJan 6, 2022

People like to say that we can’t change what happens to us, and that we can only control how we respond to it.

Bullshit.

Human beings are animals, and our emotional brains are highly adept at influencing us, while our intellectual reasoning often bends to the will of our emotions. There is no action without emotional response: indeed, even the ability to resist our initial urge is an emotional response to a…

Shain Slepian

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