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Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing
Thus, the most complete definition of a commitment is this: falling in love with something and then building a structure of behavior around it for those moments when love falters.
David Brooks • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
You will watch your parents die and be buried. You will watch your newborn child emerge in a messy circus of heaving grunts and high-pitched wailing. You will watch your dreams and projects dashed, only to wake the next day and greet the fruits of your failure anew and cobble a life out of them all the same. You will punctuate the cavalcade of even
... See moreIt is a commitment of our own choosing, one that we have lovingly made; it is the manner in which we identify ourselves.
Blu Greenberg • How to Run a Traditional Jewish Household
In consciously making a commitment, they’re closing off their fantasies of infinite possibility in favor of what I described, in the previous chapter, as the “joy of missing out”: the recognition that the renunciation of alternatives is what makes their choice a meaningful one in the first place.