time talking about how hard it is to find a coffee cup with a lid. I begrudgingly went anyway, hoping for some kind of advice on how to not feel so underwater all the time. Instead, it turned out, my fellow graduate students were all feeling the same kind of sucky, mucky despair that I was. We were all knee-deep in the same bog, sinking fast. One classmate suggested that we could all chip in for some data that proved it was possible to find a coffee cup with a lid. Another said we should formulate a plan for finding a cup with a lid, maybe even making sure the dollar store had some good options. I sighed. They could not see that the cup was a microcosm of our grad school experience, that I was a bottle in whose endless depths I could drown. The bog knows only one thing: bog. Or something like that.
Summary: The author reflects on their experiences with being stuck in life and offers insights on common pitfalls that keep people trapped in the metaphorical bog. By examining personal tendencies such as gutterballing, the try harder fallacy, blaming God, and puppeteering, the author provides a humorous yet profound analysis of common human behavior. They
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