would you rather be.... thoughts on choosing boredom over anxiety

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Dear Ones,

My mother used to play a TRULY MESSED UP values clarification game with me when I was a little girl. Would you rather be rich, dumb, and brunette or poor, smart, and blond. Would you rather be lonely, kind, and have pimples, or happy, and mean with clear skin. In the early 1970’s, my mother’s version of would …