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lil  ·  2880 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person

I've lately come to think of the misalliances I've embraced, not as mistakes, but as my life. Just as being bald is another way of having your hair, mistakes or misalliances are us, are how we live our lives, how we grow in wisdom and learn to love better.

    We should learn to accommodate ourselves to “wrongness,” striving always to adopt a more forgiving, humorous and kindly perspective on its multiple examples in ourselves and in our partners.

By the way, I've enjoyed everything I've read by Alain de Botton, particularly his book on what's his name, the guy who nibbled a madeleine -- oh yeah, Proust.