I don’t want to post anymore rants. Some anger is useful. Some is just impotent rage at things that have little to nothing to do with me. Why poison my mind, and this medium, with emotions that I should not even be encouraging. Having emotions is useful only in as far as it spurs action. […]
When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has […]
Do you ever wonder if you’re too judgmental? Of others, of yourself, of everything? Sometimes it seems like we’re always only just observing the world in order to slap a big old label of good or bad on everything we fucking see. The Stoics would say most of what troubles us lies in these good/bad […]
Social media is a very interesting place. It’s where you can join a group that’s meant to include people all interested in the same things, and still watch, in the comments of each post, a battle royale of differing opinions, all just as loud as one as one another, and all apparently lacking in spell-check. […]
For just 10 minutes, each day, maybe when you’re just waking up, just sit there. Not actively thinking about all the things you’re supposed to get done, or the things you should have done yesterday but didn’t get around to because you got sucked into a YouTube vortex of funny cat videos. Just sit quietly, […]
“It is not things that trouble people, but their opinions about things. … So whenever we are frustrated, or troubled, or pained, let us never hold anyone responsible except ourselves, meaning our own opinions. Uneducated people blame others when they are doing badly. Those whose education is underway blame themselves. But a fully educated person […]
A Lens for Seeing Regret I’m human, and I’ve done more than my fair share of immature, indulgent, or toxic behaviours in my past, and if 10,000 hours of practicing something is what constitutes mastery; then I am a master of dwelling on my mistakes and berating myself for them. Perhaps over a decade of […]
I know for some that might read this, that the idea may seem ridiculous. If our thoughts aren’t us, then what the f*** are they? Well, there isn’t an easy answer for that. Yes, some of it is absolutely you, but a lot is just…noise. Scripts you picked up along the way, trying to fill […]
I frequently question whether or not I’m actually a good person. On social media, I tend to see a lot of very troubling conversations and ask myself, almost enraged; “Can’t these people see how needlessly aggressive they are? Can’t they just, you know, mind their own business?” I have a lot of unkind things I […]