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Cancer/writing Journal #97

  Charlie Schaefer, June 2023 Sequels to The Purpose Driven Life The Maybe Tomorrow Driven Life. The I Just Don’t Care Driven Life The It Doesn’t Make Any Difference Driven Life The Apathy Works (kind of) Driven Life The It’s Good Enough Driven Life The I Might Get Lucky Driven Life. The I Don’t Think I Can Driven Life The Indolence Driven Life The Purpose Driven Life , published shortly after the turn of the current century,  was a wildly successful book, selling 50 million copies and translated into 85 languages.  Sales were helped after a report that a woman who had been kidnapped read a chapter from it to her kidnapper.  His decision to release her,  she attributed to the message from The Purpose Driven Life . I have never read the book.  Despite that, the title annoys me on two accounts.  The first is that it implies the wherewithal to take control over the chaotic, the loose cannon of id, the wild that won’t be herded.  I have not seen that ...