Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What are the songs that make you instantly feel relaxed and chilled as fuck? The songs that after a week of work you put on and instantly feel like you just nailed the week? The ones that take you away to the beach in your mind, that place where you feel connected to who you are, and all that’s truly…
Any calamity that befalls you… what if you somehow not only moved on from it, used it to your advantage or even found something within yourself to have a laugh out of it?
Sometimes, despite the absurdity of life, despite the risk, despite whether you’ve made the same mistake before (but maybe it made you who you are), we just have to say fuck it, and jump in. Take a chance. Even if you know something you do will end up with you missing or lamenting one thing, if the possible gain of…
Everyone, absolutely everyone, does that. From Alexander the great’s mule driver, all the way up to Alexander himself. As exiled former president of Catalunya, Carles Puidgment put so blithely, the caganer (a Catalan Christmas tradition) is a reminder that we are all mortals. From your unrequited love, to the most famous ever personalities you worship or look up to, down the those…
Tagging the way you feel as ‘anxious’, ‘afraid’, ‘worried’ or ‘upset’ for example may do little or nothing in the pursuit of actually determining how we feel. The words have put through the ringer of so many different contexts, they’ve been used ironically, as jokes, or in situations of varying gravity and emotional weight. So, instead of throwing names at…
Thoreau had an idea… and that was that every year, in each of all its seasons, mimics the seasons of our own lives… Autumn is the dawn or our lives, winter is the time we have to battle and stick it out, spring is the time for opportunity and excitement about the prosperous time that lies ahead, and summer, well,…
Any shitty thing that happens in our lives happens not because it is indeed a shitty thing, it only is shitty because of our predetermined lofty expectations of how we hoped it would turn out. The fact that we expected it to be the opposite of shitty, or at least less shitty in the first place is what’s to blame for our ultimate disappointment and…
If you truly think someone is wonderful, that they are a special human person, or that the things they do, how they comport themselves and the euphoric way they make you feel is unlike anyone else, it’s only fair that they know. But if you tell them, won’t you seem too keen and risk them going off you? If you…
There is a certain kind of solace and bliss that comes from accepting our fate. The most difficult times may be when we don’t know. Once we’ve been dealt a cruel blow by the hands of fate, at least we can attempt to accept it, and push forward in the best way we can. Because after all, we still have…
