Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
How old are you? And when you think about it, what is normally expected that people your age are doing in their lives? What should you have already done in your life? How many kids should you have by now? How much money, property, what type of job and what are you supposed to be by now? At some point, have…
Think back to the things that happened to you that seemed disastrous at the time, but now you look back at and laugh at. Outside of the comfort zone is where the most interesting things happen. And the more harrowing the experience, the fonder you may become of the memory. And the funnier it may be to remember it, and…
In what areas of your life are you in the comfort zone? Though life within it can be cushy and nice, and also full of powerful times, does personal growth and true moments of living only happen in new experiences, when your point of view is challenged by someone, when you yourself are in a challenging situation, and when you are just…
That’s it. Watch this… Don’t worry, be happy. Happiness is a choice. No matter whatever is missing in your life, if you have something you don’t have, no matter your situation (or predicament), there is always either a lot, or at least something to be happy about. If you are alive, you always have at least one thing to be happy…
No matter what you’re doing (or have to do), if you put Sigur Ros on while you do it, it’ll make whatever it is seem way more significant (it might even make whatever bullshit chore you have to do feel a lot less bullshit-y, but more existentially-y, like you’re transcending all time and space, and whatever you’re doing is less like…
In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the Player King says: ‘Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.’There are billions of scenarios that you can dream up and for things to happen in a some imagined way, but in the end you may no control over external consequences of things that involve more than just what you do. Focus only what…
This is what I come home to every day… Chunky couldn’t give a shit if a lesson I tried to teach bombed today, or that they’ve just completely changed the format of the test I’m preparing students for and it’s super annoying. Animals, and especially pets, couldn’t care less that there was this annoying customer at work today, or that you…
What you’ve always done, how you’ve always acted, how you react to certain tough situations, the guilt you get in certain situations is because you always have done it. It’s because you chose either the circumstances to cause it, or your reaction to whatever just happened. Every moment, from now, or after you react in a way you feel you always have,…
* That last one, my brother told me that one. When I found out it wasn’t true (when I was about 6), I cried. When someone pisses you off, says something that just gets to you (and cuts deep), someone does something that immediately makes you uncomfortable, or something happens that immediately makes you cringe with anxiety or panic with…
In your life, do you constantly vacillate between thinking about the past, the future, all the while trying to enjoy the moment? Well is it possible that a life aimed to live entirely in each moment as it comes a pointless one? Even when we are present in the moment, watching a sunset, laughing at something hilariously at something ridiculous…