Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There’s a lot of reasons Robert California is one of the greatest fictional characters there ever was and here’s another one. When two people start talking about personal relationship shit in front of him, they start to feel bad for him and pitifully tell him, ‘I’m sorry this must make you uncomfortable’. To which he replies: I am never uncomfortable.…
Kanye has this picture on his living room wall: And it’s there because as he says, ‘Well, I gotta cheer for me before anyone else can cheer for me.’ But isn’t that relying on something else, something out of your control, to give you self worth? Say the picture gets destroyed or gets moved, does that mean he can’t possibly…
This was Chunky after rolling around in the sand down the local beach today: But you think he gives a fuck he has sand all over his face and between his eyeball sockets, looking like some bread crumb-covered weirdo? He couldn’t give a fuck. There’s a reason that our eyeball sockets have stayed in the exact same place since caveman times,…
This is a I-don’t-know-how-many-yet part longform examination of insults (and getting offended)… Here’s Part 1: The philosophy of: Stuff they teach kids (Sticks and stones may break my bones…) Part 2: Words are nothing but a series of letters arranged in a certain order to make a certain sound that comes out of the face hole. and Part 3: If you’re insulted by…
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…
This is a I-don’t-know-how-many-yet part longform examination of insults (and getting offended)… Here’s Part 1: The philosophy of: Stuff they teach kids (Sticks and stones may break my bones…) And Part 2 – Words are nothing but a series of letters arranged in a certain order to make a certain sound that comes out of the face hole. —— Imagine there’s two…
Not only do insults have absolutely zero possibility to do physical or psychological harm to you, but the same thing goes for anything someone says to you. If someone expresses their disappointment in you, orders you to do something, tells you did something wrong or stupidly, those words have as much ability to physically or emotionally hurt you as if…
When they teach kids this in primary school: Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. …it’s actually genius. Never ever in the history of the world ever ever has something someone said physically hurt, maimed or killed someone. Yet we treat insults as they were physically attacks on our lives, a threat to our safety,…
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…