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Perfect! Great! Amazing! Wonderful! Dawg I am just buying a cappuccino, this does not merit DDR-style announcements

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I talk a lot about how much violence is normalized in our daily language, but perhaps not enough about our dilution of joy. It could be the Second Coming tomorrow and what would you say? You already spent 'glorious' on your nephew's middle school football comeback

This hedonic hyperbole also limits our capacity for finding satisfaction in the ordinary. Let good things simply be good. If you need to exaggerate every small joy in order for it to seem worthy, look inward about that