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This Is Sparta Kosta Lucas
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- Society & Culture
One man's meditation from the frontlines after life-altering surgery.
Beats and Soundscapes: BLKJK (@blkjkmusic)
Studio Wizardry: Jimmie Linville (@hesijimbofoodtruck)
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This Is Sparta: 0-V
0: Prologue: The Do-Over / I: To Love and Conquer / II: Australian Gothic / III: Sleep / IV: Wake In Fright / V: Spartan Mirage
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Chapter V: Spartan Mirage
My fears certainly don’t love me, but they haven’t conquered me either. And right now - that’s OK. At least that’s OK until something forces us to fight to the death.
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Chapter IV: Wake In Fright
I looked inwards, and it was so dark that not even black couldn’t escape. It was just a devil’s dust bowl of words:
“Cutting off pieces of yourself to find yourself. Like you always do.”
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Chapter III: Sleep
If nothing else, after years of sleeping so badly, I’m about to have the deepest sleep I’ve had in some time.
“You’ve earned this.” I think to myself. “At least this.”
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Chapter II: Australian Gothic
If you’ve ever had a lifelong battle with a personal problem, chances are you have taken a few weird - maybe drastic - measures to come out on top. For me that was in 2012 when I went to a health retreat that was hosted by a fundamentalist religious sect, deep in the Southern Highlands of NSW...
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Chapter I: To Love and Conquer
Let me tell you all a story about one of the most important moments of my life: my gastric sleeve surgery. Or rather, let me tell you my story about why an otherwise common, life-saving procedure was, and still is, such an earth-shattering experience for me...
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