“Everybody knows how useful it is to be useful;
nobody knows how useful it is to be useless.”
–Zhuangzi
Contemplating how seeking after the future makes all things but mere tools on the way to success in a later-on nowhere rather than our good companions alongside us in this present now/here.
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