Imagine losing your job, your partner of husband or wife leaving you, getting a terminal illness, a burglar breaking in and stealing all your stuff when you’re out, or your dog or cat suddenly getting hit by car… The most severe part of the impact we feel when we lose someone or something in our life comes from us either…
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This is the time Mr Bean went to the amusement park… If you go through shitty times, or high times, with work, it is possible to maintain the same level of balance and untroubledness throughout each of them. Whether complete indifference to everything is healthy is one thing, but working at being in complete control of your emotions when things…
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If you ever think that thing your worried about right now is important, just check: If your problem is something similar to this: It’s bullshit. Gratitude, contentment–and therefore happiness– is a choice. And right now, you have someone somewhere in the world who would kill to have what you have. To have the eyesight to read this, the mental cognition to…
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Stoicism’s about focusing on and thinking only about the things you can control. And forgetting about the things you can’t. It’s about focusing on now, and not taking anything–past, present or future–for granted. Because one, your future’s not guaranteed AT ALL, two, at any moment you could leave life, and three, it’ll be over in a blink anyway. And it’s also about not wanting what you…
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When shit sucks, or is great, embrace it. Life is temporary as fuck so just go with whatever you’ve got going on right now. If it sucks, or it’s flippin’ awesome, say yes. Whatever. Sucky. Shitty. Super mega happy fun times. Say Yes. Even if you put your heart on the line and are honest with yourself to everyone in…
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What do you do when you get lemons? Run with it? Go into denial and pretend it’s not happening? Or do you do what Kunu does? I like option 1. Option 3 (Kunu’s) is also cool. I think. In some way I’m pretty sure. Here’s the song and the lyrics.
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The trials and difficulties and shitty things make you what you are. And the things that are hardest make us strong and prepare us for harder times in the future. And the things that we are afraid of, that we do whatever we can to avoid, are often the things that make us, that build us, that makes us strong,…
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When something goes wrong, that’s great, because now you don’t have to worry about it happening anymore. Now you can move forward. Once you get something, the inevitable and only thing that can happen to it, by nature, is to lose it. As with life, the only thing left to do is die. You can’t live and then look forward…
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How long is a second really?¹ Or a minute? An hour? A month? They’re all a man-made rigid scale of measurement assigned to measure something that is anything but man-made: nature. Do pelicans, ladybugs or garden weeds care about how many minutes (or seconds) until this or that? Do Golden retrievers or bullants or hibiscus trees care about time since that or…
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Why, what else but to revere and bless the gods; to do good to men; to bear and forebear and remember that whatsoever lies outside the bounds of this poor flesh and breath is none of yours, nor in your power. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 5:33 This is my favourite ever Snufkin moment and could be my favourite ever moment…