New Year, Old Problem: How to Deal With Life's Disappointments
I'm ready to make a few New Year's resolutions: I vow to try out Waldman's notion of "shouldlessness," that is, to live without tight hold of a map about how life should proceed. I vow to try to embrace life exactly the way it is, in all of its imperfections. I also vow to try to learn to live with the discomfort of disappointment.
Claudia Ricci, Contributor
Freelance journalist and fiction writer