...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.