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When I was at some of my lowest points in my life, I sometimes had this belief that I was on the frontier of the human condition, investigating the boundaries of meaning, pioneering definitions of belonging or purpose. But the reality was that everything that I had once felt has most certainly been felt before. Disillusionment, betrayal, apathy, disconsolation, uncertainty—they’ve all been discussed ad nauseam for centuries, if not millennia, because they are core parts of the human condition.