Unscripted: Screw the Should Life

Unscripted: Screw the Should Life

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When Work Was My Religion (and I finally quit worshipping at the altar)
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When Work Was My Religion (and I finally quit worshipping at the altar)

I stopped performing. I started living. And within six months... everything changed.

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Marni Battista
Apr 11, 2025
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“… I mean, work was my religion for forever, but I definately lost my belief there. And then— And then I tried love, and that was just a painful religion, just made everything worse. And then, even for me, just, like, being a mother, that didn’t save me either..”
— Laurie, The White Lotus

When Laurie dropped this line in the season finale of White Lotus, …

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