• TaterTot@piefed.social
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    7 days ago

    Everyone loves to pick the most extreme circumstances to define a person’s character.

    I rather feel it’s the opposite. You never truly know someone until you’ve seen how they deal with the mundanity of life for a few years.

  • Dadifer@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    “Live with a man 40 years. Share his house, his meals. Speak on every subject. Then tie him up and hold him over the volcano’s edge. And on that day, you will finally meet the man.”

    • Michael Scott
  • starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    This is something I’ve thought about a lot, is this really true? People say you don’t know someone unless things get bad, but like… if someone improves my life 95% of the time, but then they don’t get sleep or are having a rough time and they treat me really badly, is that 5% the “real them?” Idk just something about that doesn’t sit quite right with me.