James Sexton
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You've been hurt.
This fell apart and you keep doing it because it's so human.
We want it so badly.
It's that fundamental to us.
It's like breathing.
We need love and connection, period.
So not only has it not soured me on love,
It has had the opposite effect.
It has made me realize how precious love is, how important love is, how finite and potentially fragile love is.
Like, I'm a romantic, but I don't believe in fairy tales.
I think fairy tales are useful to tell us principles and virtues that might inspire us to be better.
But I don't believe in fairy tales.
I don't believe in soulmates.
Like, there are 8 billion people in the world.
That's a lot.
Like, I think there are a lot of people any one of us could have a very successful, happy connection with.
Long term, short term, whatever it might be.
I don't think that we have to romanticize that to the point where we go, yeah, like it's perfect or nothing.
Oh, this person hurt my feelings.
That's it, it's over now.