are words good enough?
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but I do understand what he feels: that life is not about accumulation or accretion, that any joy you feel is not predicated on the person you’re dating or the place where you live or the things you do. Joy comes from being alive. What someone else makes you feel is an emotion that you yourself generated, that you contain all the time: they just helped you access it. This feels like an important piece of knowledge, but it’s also nearly impossible to properly convey through words.