A lot of people in Chicago describe their life the same way: "fine." Good routines, nothing on fire. But books that get a whole room talking within minutes — and that is the conversation nobody starts at dinner. Let's start it here.
And this is Chicago: one of the Chicago area's most established communities — the kind of place where life looks handled from the outside, which is exactly why the gratitude-versus-settling question lands so quietly here. Which is exactly why this question lands differently here than anywhere else.
You don't have to blow up a good life to build a bigger one. You just have to stop calling the plateau 'peace.'
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