You Are Not Your Own Substack

You Are Not Your Own Substack

On Saving the World

The burden of being hyper-responsible and the importance of temperance

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O. Alan Noble
Feb 20, 2026
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How to deal with this fact: the world is filled with suffering and you are only one person. And most days you don’t even feel like one person. You feel like half a person or a quarter of a person, pulled multiple directions at once by competing demands: friends, spouse, children, work, school, church. Always something…

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