Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you didn’t know what love is, and you observed someone who was going through the pangs of love you would best guess that it’s some kind of crippling disease. Worse yet, would be if you had no idea what love was (fed to you by Hollywood, books etc.) and felt it yourself. You may think you’ve either got a…
Pretty much everything we choose to do is for the purpose of making ourselves happy (and whether that comes as a result of making others happy). But in those times where you are denied something, someone ignores you, things don’t go your way or your lofty plans fall face first in the mud, it may be just as important to…
It’s possible that people you know spend a lot of time talking about you. But it’s also possible that they don’t talk about you at all. The truth is that it’s probably somewhere in the middle. You are neither incredibly important or completely meaningless. And that’s okay. Because of that, you have been given license to make of this life…
There is no perfect person. We all do absurd things and have neuroses that make no, or very little, sense to others. From time to time, some of these may be endearing, but at others, they be completely maddening to those around us. So if someone points out something that you do poorly, or lazily, that you’re always late, overly neurotic…
Excellence withers without an adversary: the time for us to see how great it is, how much its force, is when it displays its power through endurance. I assure you, good men should do the same: they should not be afraid to face hardships and difficulties, or complain of fate; whatever happens, good men should take it in good part,…
Our picture of what is normal isn’t true to how most of us actually are. The brilliance of Leo Tolstoy as a writer can be primarily put down to one thing. And that’s that he was able to capture the normal abnormalities that are the inner workings of our own minds. The thoughts, fantasies, fears, selfish desires, and the potentially embarrassing,…
If all significant events in life are transformative, where you can never know or explain what it’s like to have a kid, feel what it’s like to be married, get divorced, have a near death experience or even have sex with a close friend until it happens to you, well then maybe saying ‘fuck the consequences’ to indecision about them may…
There might not be a word more confused or have a greater subjective meaning than any other in the English language than Love. But actually, no, yes there might. And its definition, significance and what it should be and means to us could be far more difficult to explain than love. And that’s sex. —— What is sex to you? What do…
Bukowski may have been on to something when he said ‘Find what you love, and then let it kill you’. Either way, our significance is completely insignificant, so what’s going to be the difference if you pussied out of things you were afraid of doing, or whether you did them. So if the latter is way much more fun, why…
Just when you thought the images on your screen were as life like and as fucking massive as possible, the iPhone XS Max has made them even more necessarily fucking massiver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVe__Py2GuU Every time you take a selfie, or a photo of your cat doing something funny, or a photo with your friends, don’t you always think ‘Man, why can’t…