Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m in California or Mexico right now (probably), so for a few weeks, this is a collection of all my favourite questions I’ve thought of in the last year and bit since I started this blog. You have the answers to everything you want to know (about the world or about yourself) inside of you, all it takes is to ask yourself the right question. And…
Though at first this article seems like The Onion are taking the piss out of (and they might be) Stoic approaches to misfortune, trials, life, death, gratitude, nature and the indifference of the universe, and good and bad times (and even taking cold showers) reveals itself as you peel the layers, much like the stinky, stinky vegetable which bears the website’s name: Are…
The wound is the place where the light enters you. – Rumi It’s the trials and the suffering that make the good times truly sweet. And it’s the trials that lead to the best times of your life (they may even be the best times of your life, whether now, without realising, or later, in reflection.
Though the fun times in life can be cruisy and comfortable, it’s the challenges that make you who you are. And they make you enjoy the good times (and be able to create joy in any situation) because you don’t need them, you don’t rely on them always being there, you embrace the challenges and the emotions felt during them, and…
It’s the most challenging and trying times that change us in the most positive ways (if dealt with head on). They make us stronger, and more capable to deal with future shitty things that happen. Greatness can be experienced in the good things, and Growth and improvement come from shit things. So, whatever emotional wall you hit, see if instead of…
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…
There are no actual bad things that happen in life. Because the good stuff in life, ok, is great for the joy it gives you, but anything that happens to you that’s crappy at the moment, is an opportunity to turn into something positive. Every time. And something always does, with the right attitude. This dude, from what I get from this…
Just like working out and lifting weights to get stronger, it’s the trials that make us strong. You need to go through those hard times to become strong. Because as life goes on and people get older, just like you, life gets more challenging. So welcome the trials, because they make the next one maybe at least bearable, or maybe even…
You are unfortunate in my judgement, if you have not been unfortunate. – Seneca, from On Providence I don’t know how to describe how flippin’ brilliant Gang of Youths are and how bloody excellent their latest album is. So I’ll just demonstrate with a real life story, written in a way like I don’t know how to English and have never…
When Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. That’s positive advice but so’s this. Or is it? I don’t know. I can’t figure out if Kunu from Forgetting Sarah Marshall has nailed it or he’s talking shit: When life gives you lemons, just say fuck the lemons and bail. Is this good advice? Maybe? I don’t know. Is he talking about suicide? Or is just…