Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips (Audiobook)

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We become haunted by the myth of our own potential, of what it might A transformative book about the lives we wish we had and what they can teach use about who we are All of us lead two parallel lives: the one we are actively living, and the one we feel we should have had or might yet have. As hard as we try to exist in the moment, the unlived life is an inescapable presence, a shadow at our heels. And this itself can become the story of our lives: an elegy to unmet needs and sacrificed desires.

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