No person as an individual is fungible, but a person's professional life is entirely fungible -- except the artist.
And that's why I ended the first post with "have children," b/c for a child, the parents are irreplaceable.
Therefore, no matter what you do professionally, if you're a parent, you'll be, in at least one area of your life, irreplaceable, needed, and essential.
Now those people who are both parents and artists . . . wow, just wow.
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"Now I say that I know the meaning of my life: 'To live for God, for my soul.' And this meaning, in spite of its clearness, is mysterious and marvelous. Such is the meaning of all existence." Levin, Anna Karenina, Part 8, Chapter 12
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