…..she gave them virtually everything they wanted and everything they asked for, but she didn’t offer them inarguably the most valuable commodity of all: Her time. And next to that glaring omission, all the expensive, glossy largesse she showered on them really didn’t amount to much of anything. Nil. Nothing of lasting value; nothing to write home about; nothing to cherish indefinitely. They desperately wanted her time; she favored them with money and shiny trinkets in lieu of it and no one wound up being satisfied in the end. There were no winners in this regrettable scenario. They believed her to be a self-indulgent swine who only cared about herself, and she in turn thought them to be bratty ingrates who could never be satisfied or happy with anything she threw in their direction. A classic stalemate then. A hopeless deadlock. An unwinnable impasse. They both had everything in the world from a materialistic perspective, yet from the more important firmamental perspective they had nothing to speak of—nothing that made them truly happy, nothing that made their earthly existences more pleasurable and redeeming…..
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