Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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…
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…
If you’re having a day where you’re worried, anxious or uncertain (is that a bad thing?), listen to this – it’s impossible to keep feeling the same way. You can always go to your Kokomo, anytime, and anywhere you are. And the same goes for this: Because if you’re alive, you are one of the 10 billion people lucky enough to ever…
Most people have a one (or a lot of) songs that when they hear them, the song automatically takes you back to some time. And most times, that time it takes you back to a time when things were amazing, or scary, or unusual or completely not what you had ever expected to feel or be experiencing. So when you’re…
Everything must end. So although it may not be healthy to constantly think ‘This is going to end. This is going to end. This is going to end.’ During every moment of a friendship, relationship, holiday etc., it’s healthy to at least be aware of it from the start. Does saying ‘My…’ before anything (or everything) in your life subconsciously…
If something sucks, or worse, is terrible, do we suffer? Maybe you think yes. Is that situation of suffering definite (at least in your current perception of reality)? Maybe you also think yes. And is your current reality 100% certain and present (at least in your own perception)? Maybe that’s another yes. So why do we suffer because of maybes? Are…
Good weather. Bad weather. Blah blah whatever. How much does the weather run your life? Is it the weather that stops you from doing what you want to do, or you? If the weather controls what you do and don’t do, you’re not the driver of your own life. You’re the passenger in it. If you ask someone what they…
What’s the most important thing or person/people/animal in your life? At some point they came into your life, right? But before that, you were fine living without them, so it’s realistic that you can be fine without them (And you will be without them at some point). If you have a baby, meets someone you love, buy a house or phone, move to…
If the past is the complete opposite of the future, then if the past is set, that must mean that the future is set in absolutely 0.00000000 ways. There may be a few highly probably things that will happen in your long and short term future, but there is a slight probability that you may be dead by the end…
When you look back on forks in the road, it can be tempting to think, ‘If I had/hadn’t done x, then I wouldn’t be with/doing/living in y…’, but the only way things could have gone is the way they did. This is something my mate, Matt says – whatever situation you’re in, it just is. There is no ‘By this time,…