This Is Water

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
This is real freedom.
The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had and lost some infinite thing.”

Before this was a book, when DFW was still alive, this was online for free and I had it bookmarked and I would just go to it every few weeks or so to remind myself how to be.

One of the most important things I've ever read.