Shorter works · Harry Pagancoss
The ordinary business of being human.
Four explorations of the ways we live, the stories we tell ourselves, and how we treat one another.
Meditation I
Through stories of ordinary lives and familiar contradictions, Why You're Unhappy looks at the quiet ways we get in our own way—and why the life we thought would make us happy sometimes doesn’t.
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Meditation II
Through stories of people who happen to have grown old, Old People Are People examines what age changes, what it doesn’t, and the strange ways we begin treating someone differently once we decide they are old.
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Meditation III
A darkly playful look at the everyday behaviors that make relationships miserable: control disguised as concern, honesty used as a weapon, scorekeeping, manipulation, and all the little things we do while remaining absolutely certain the problem is someone else.
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Meditation IV
An exploration of ambition, comparison, and our peculiar need to measure a life against everyone else’s. What happens when being ordinary feels like failure—and being exceptional still isn’t enough?
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