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lanstinyesterday at 7:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

I would love to be a star ship captain in a universe with faster than light travel. Or a surgeon. But you know actual life is good and I do enjoy watching DS9 with my young adult son, Benjamin. And reading about all the other cool things. It is better to live an imperfect experience than just wish for an ideal imagined experience. And better to act wrongly than to be right but do nothing.


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jayneticsyesterday at 7:45 PM

Did you name your son after the captain of DS9?

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shostackyesterday at 9:34 PM

Also, a lot of people have dreams about a perfect idealized version of something instead of the reality. If they actually got to experience the reality they might find that they no longer hold that dream as they originally knew it.

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