Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It may not be useful, or a life worth living, if you go about your usual day imagining the worst is going to happen. That sounds like a bullshit kind of life. But imagining tragedy–the things you most don’t want to– can lead to you being prepared for (and happy with) anything that happens in your life: Don’t know what…
When people mention you when you’re not around, what do you hope they say about you? When they say ‘(your name) is…’, how do you hope they finish that sentence? What are the things about you that you hope they say? What are the characteristics that are the things you most want to be? Live that way. However you want…
In Y Tu Mamá También, as part of their manifesto, the Charolastras believe that ‘The Truth is cool, but unattainable’. But that doesn’t mean you can’t try to attain it. And it may not be about learning what’s truth and then confirming it over and over, it might be more important to eliminate what is not. So think of the perfect relationship,…
There’s one thing that connects you to every other person, everyone you care about, no matter where they are around the world. And that’s the cosmos. So even if you’re on the other side of the world from people you care about, you can still share real life experiences (ones that are in the physical world, not technological ones) and all…
What’s your dream? Or goal? To go for it, you’re probably going to have to make a decision (or sacrifice). To give something up or to take on something challenging, uncomfortable, uncertain and maybe even potentially difficult. This, from The School of Life, is how you might be able to make the call that is the one you, deep down, truly…
Here’s how to have a shitty conversation: Talk about how awesome you are, how awesome your life is (at 0:35) how strong you are, how you’re invincible, how you’ve never worried about anything and can’t imagine ever doing it. And here’s how to have a good conversation: Be vulnerable.
What’s your dream? Or your greatest goal? What’s the one thing that most wish for, want or would love to give a go? Well, if you went for it, what you would first possibly gain, and possibly lose if it didn’t go the way you wanted? And if it didn’t go the way you had hoped, what steps could you…
Is an ambition-free life, one ‘free’ of dreams a meaningless one? Is existence completely in the present a purposeless one? In Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot, a man is sentenced to death by firing squad but minutes before he’s shot, he is pardoned. In those minutes expecting his death though, he realises how incredible and eternally beautiful the simplest things are. So…
I will never know everything about you. And you won’t know me. It’s impossible to know what it’s like to truly be someone else, to know why they are afraid of what they are, why they worry about what they do, and why they want what they do. The entire aggregation of all the feelings and experiences that someone has…
This time right now, that you’re living in, is possibly a time that you will look back on one day. And you’re in it. Right now. Live it. Open your eyes. Breathe in. Slow down. Listen to the sounds around you, and what the people around you are saying. The meaning. Not just the words. You are in this moment…