Painterly open worn suitcase containing a swirling dark storm cloud.

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Walter F. Mondale

Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you’ve known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night’s sleep?

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker asks, in a rhetorical way, whether anyone would willingly wreck their ordinary life. The examples, time with family and friends, fishing, hunting, even a night's sleep, are the everyday comforts that would be given up, so the question implies a heavy cost for whatever pursuit demands it.

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