ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Is it ambition, or a fear of being forgotten? In this episode of While I’ve Got You, Gabby finally takes up a question that’s been sitting in the queue, with a way in from Barbara’s advice to Janine on Abbott Elementary: look at the why beneath the why.
Gabby pulls apart being forgotten, which is about other people’s memory, and being inconsequential, which is about whether what you put into the world mattered. From there she gets into what happens when something you love starts to need a metric, the instinct to monetize every hobby that sparks joy, and a scene in Wicker about a path that can be coming from something or going toward something, depending on who’s walking it.
Both things can be true, and she stays in that. Along the way: a burned-out week, a publish day that ran late, a friend’s reminder that the summit moves every time you get close, and why leftover chicken nuggets at 1 a.m. might count as contentment.
Listener question for the week: what does today have to offer you that might just last today?
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TRANSCRIPT 🔗
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Giving my heart to you in this way doesn't feel shameful.
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It doesn't feel like a less important reason than me pursuing my pleasure.
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It actually feels selfless if you can't see them flipping my hair.
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And I'm basically the mother Teresa, is how that inconsequential piece feels.
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I'm Gabby, and you're listening to While I've Got You.
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