Truth

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He was sitting at a long table, papers, keys, phone and a yellow traffic ticket dropped randomly around his laptop. It felt good to have a square of table to allow for life to lie about and ask for attention, gently. For years he had been living in a state of low level anxiety. Every so often a spark would elicit a peak and the anxiety would flood from head to toe. Who am I? What am I doing? How long until the storm passes?. Anxiety being a constant. A never ending stream of ‘not good enough’. But not good enough for who? Or Whom? Or whatever is correct ‘here?’ He could look it up on the internet, it was a click away, maybe already watching, recording looking to see what data could be gathered so he could be sold a new laptop, word processor, bump in health insurance cost because he sat at a long table and typed for hours each day. And at his age. Dynamic pricing for a sedentary lifestyle. But what ‘it’ didn’t gather was the long walks he took in the afternoons over small peaks along the Pacific. He should have downloaded an app and recorded each step so he could calm the spike in dynamic pricing with his data counter-argument to sitting at his long table for hours at a time. Days at a time. Weeks, months, years at a time. What is the optimal model for mitigating dynamic pricing? What is the algorithm? How does he find some people to get together with to create the perfect life of discount and cash back? The cheapest life? Is a cheap life a fulfilled life? Is a fulfilled life a fruitless endeavor? An exercise in futility? If he buys something and gets cash back is he saving money? He just spent money but he is told he saved money. Ministry of truth?