I Am a Meme Now — And So Are You

Maybe wisdom is accepting that you don’t get to decide who you are

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Apparently I am a meme now. This was brought to my attention a couple of weeks ago, when a friend forwarded me an internet post that superimposed a line from one of my essays over a cat’s face. It was a two-panel image, setup and punch line: In the first panel we see the words “the rewards of…