Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The past doesn’t define you – it’s not who you are. And neither do your future plans, which are not only reliant on things out of your control, but are tentative at best. For all of us. Every passing moment is a chance to turn it all around. But you do control your actions. No matter your past, at any…
If you drop your phone and the screen breaks, or you have to pay a late fee on your credit card repayment, your car breaks down, or you miss the bus, or even some even more serious shit happens, remember this… the entire history of earth and its future, all the people on it, everything that’s been done it, from…
The aphoristic, short, sharp and punchy style of writing that makes so much of Shakespeare’s writing meaningful and powerful is something he shared with the Stoics, Marcus Aurelius and Seneca. All three of them wrote about not fearing that which is uncertain, taking responsibility for and expressing reason and accepting the things that you can’t change. And whatever is out…
Murphy’s Law is more than just some dumb thing some people say when shit doesn’t go their way (that needs to be eliminated from the vernacular, preferably brutally with a bullet). It also has a deeper, more significant impact on our lives (and in particular our happiness, or contentment ((which I think is far more important))¹ Waiting in line the other…
Murphy’s Law is demented. Because, every day, we notice and pay much more attention to, and make a big deal about the few little things that don’t go our way, as opposed to the thousands of little things that do. It’s giving meaning to random events and occurrences that have none, other than: it happened. So to prove how dumb it…
I forgot what he said exactly but Henry David Thoreau said that wood is the gift that gives warmth twice –once when you chop it down and once when you burn it. But he miscalculated. By a lot. Norwegians are on to it, because they say that it gives warmth three times: Once when you chop it, once when you stack…