Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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It is a fortune that may befall anybody. And this misfortune has befallen me. The only is how best to endure the situation. Any shitty thing that can happen can happen to you. But if any shitty thing that can happen can happen to you, then it’s likely that a similarly shitty thing has happened to somebody before (and probably…
I will never know everything about you. And you won’t know me. It’s impossible to know what it’s like to truly be someone else, to know why they are afraid of what they are, why they worry about what they do, and why they want what they do. The entire aggregation of all the feelings and experiences that someone has…
In Albert Camus’ book, The Outsider, Meursault is an honest bloke –to himself, to his boss and his girlfriend. And when his girlfriend asks him, ‘Do you love me?’ He replies: ‘That kind of question has no meaning.’ And he then thinks to himself that he supposed he didn’t. And a few minutes later, despite her being disappointed or slightly upset,…
This is Izzy from The Last Kiss, and in this scene from the movie, his mate tries to guilt him into coming with on a massive trip by judging the fact that all he does is go ice fishing every day, and that is an ‘incomplete’ or ‘pathetic’ life. But Izzy is happy just going ice fishing, and he’d be…
After I went up to the front desk at my local library the other day, I remembered I forgot to get something else (remember to forget – does that exist?). And as I did, I left a copy of Nick Bostrom’s seminal Superintelligence on the counter (any book that has cover quote from Bill Gates and Elon Musk –perhaps the two…
Do Nothing, which is of no use. – Miyamoto Musashi Scrolling through your Instagram news feed for 35 minutes ‘just because, you know’, or just opening Snapchat for a couple minutes because ‘you know, why not’ or saying I’m bored and scrolling through your Instagram feed for 28 more minutes is a waste of time, and therefore a waste of life. There is nothing…
6 weeks ago, my copy of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations looked like this: And yesterday, after consciously taking my time to read as little of it every day as possible (so as to think about and most importantly try put it into practice) I finished. Just over a month later (not 20 years, as a student of mine thought), now it looks like this:…
The last time I actively turned on the news or sought it out consciously was about September last year (I was also turning it off whenever I heard it come on the radio too, but I’m less of a dick about that now). And how many times has it affected me, not staying up to date with it? 0. Well,…
‘If thou wouldst know contentment, let thy deeds be few’, said the sage. – Marcus Aurelius, from Meditations Yesterday, my mate Matt wrote about taking your time, not wasting it. in 2016, I read about 10 books. And this year… well, WOWEE, the total number of books I’ve read is: Blah blah whatever. Who gives a flying fuck. Smashing stuff out Vs.…
Last night I faced a conundrum, otherwise known as a dilly of a pickle… I was going to have a fire in the backyard and cook dinner on it. I was looking forward to it, but after putting all the wood in the firepit and with the lighter in my hand about to ignite it, I noticed there were at…