Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
We don’t understand death. It confuses the shit out of us. And by the very definition of life, in which it can not co-exist with the state of being dead, we never will. No one will ever tell you anything about death. If someone comes up to you and tries telling you what death is like, ignore them and tell…
The times when we most connect to someone else, on a deep level, might not be when they show us how strong and invincible they are; it might be when they show us vulnerable they are. An when they show you their vulnerability that’s not out of a out a gloating, that makes you feel superior and stronger than them,…
In today’s news, local natural phenomenon The Weather, 4.5 billion, has wandered into a local shopping centre with an AK-47 and mowed down 35 men, women and children in cold blood. It is believed that the motive for the seemingly unprovoked attack is that The Weather had enough of people calling it ‘shit’, ‘Shitty’ ‘Crap’, ‘Fucking shit’ and a series…
In those times when one thing seems to go wrong after another, and particularly those times when bearaucracy and superficial decisions made about your status or ‘worth’ are decided by others, just check out how Hassan lives… A man who, in the eyes of bureaucracy doesn’t actually exist… (and just when you think you’re not lucky enough to live in…
What do you find’s most sexy and attractive in someone? The physical things you can see? Or the intangible things, and mostly their mind?
By embracing it? By saying Yes to it all? All the sucky shit? Can you cope with it in a range of positive ways? Can you easily realise that if this is happening to you, then it’s probably happened to someone, somewhere before? That if everything is temporary, so is this? That may be far easier said than done. And if it means…
Where do you belong? Where are you your most comfortable? It may be a physical place or it might just be a feeling, a sense of home. And may be that you’re most comfortable, you’re home, in situations and place that are uncomfortable. So where’s home? And why’s it feel like home?
Qual è la vera vittoria, quella che fa battere le mani o battere i cuori? – Pier Paulo Fasolini Everything you do (that you choose to do) is done for one reason: to feel something. And whatever you do, is it better to do it for the applause, the plaudits, the praise, or to make your heart beat, and to…
Why do you do anything? Why do you everything you do? To feel something. And that feeling specifically? Connection. Connection to yourself, who you want to be, who you were as a kid, who you want to be one day… connection to others and connecting to trying to understand what it’s like to be them… Connection to your own sense of…
It’s not the amount of time that is short in life – 40, 50, 60, 70 years is a FUCKING SHITLOAD of time. It’s the amount (or lack) of experiences that can make it seem short. But a life spent experiencing new things, taking risks, being curious and playful like a kid and putting yourself out of the comfort zone…