crazy that putting a kid to bed is this kind of kafkaesque sisyphean endeavor where it’s actually not possible to force another being to fall asleep, so you’re like “go to sleep”, but they can’t make themselves, and you can’t make them, but you just pretend you can, every night.
— owen cyclops
There are many human activities that rely on us pretending we can control something we can’t and just hoping it works out anyway.
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