Don't let your dreams be dreams.
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Being stressed out by the world is unhealthy. Withdrawing from reality to avoid that stress is also unhealthy. The fuck am I supposed to do move to another planet? In this economy?
I am the embodiment of your option #2. AMA! 😄
"Avoid stress" is code for don't worry about things you have no control over.
Thinking I have no control over things feels defeatist
You can control things, just not everything.
Well yea. My point is, there is very little you have "no control" over; and "things I can influence" is where stress comes from
Y'all have never been to court ordered alcoholics anonymous meetings and it shows.
Reinhold Niebuhr wrote the first known version of the Serenity Prayer, and it's been through a few revisions just by popular word of mouth or even literal Hallmark greeting cards, but the version they say at AA meetings is:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
The basic principle can be decoupled from the religious origins and still be a useful approach to life. Learn not to stress about the things not in your control, while still taking control of the influence you do have.
don’t worry about things you have no control over.
Is code for "just don't have anxiety or burnout! It's easy!"
Where to get my next meal, is something I don't always have control over. Unfortunately it's also not something I can stop worrying about.
Edit: made it clear that my situation is much better now, but it wasn't always.
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I suppose drugs? The doctors have a lot of those. Though those drugs make the Sacklers a loooot of money and ruin people's lives. So I suppose one can choose artisinal life-wrecking (by a guy named Kevyn who made the drugs himself at home in his trailer, or the industrailzed version. But that's the US I suppose, not being from there I just take a stroll in the woods and feel fine
Gargoyles are water features. So unless you want to be installed at the end of a gutter and vomit water, I recommend becoming a grotesque instead.
Oh, so Kirk was the new college gargoyle, not just grotesque. Now I get it!
Ok, wow, this just made me realize that "gargle" and "gargoyle" share the same "mouth/throat water" origin. Mind blown.
And the Spanish word for throat is garganta
AND YOUR MOM IS GARGANTUOUS
One of my favorite fun facts is that the proper name for a Gothic grotesque that is purely decorative is hunky punk
Quits job and retires early
“You told me to avoid stress…”
Until your meager savings runs out and now the stress level is 100x what it was before
I love all these YouTube videos, health gurus and influencers encouraging me to sleep a full eight hours.
Y'all motherfuckers have never had children, have you?
Why would you have children if you wanted to sleep ever again?
Because sex is fun, birth control is not always perfect, my wife did not wish an abortion and I respect her bodily autonomy.
Or worked hospitality. These fuckers have never done an AFD or a clopen
Love the word "clopen". It's a terrible word and it gets the point across perfectly.
You don't even get to finish "close" before you're already opening. There's no hyphen or breath time in-between.
It's all just mashed together, rushed, and stressful, just like the shift it describes.
Christ. My son has a cough, and he crawled up into our bed last night. Spent hours coughing directly into my ear, slapping me with flailing hands, and crying for milk (which he then rejected after it was offered).
I am in an absolute haze this morning.
It gets better. The early years are so exhausting that it’s hard to function. It so often feels like you’re talking to a wall and repeating yourself every day. And then little by little, they start to parrot your saying and mannerisms (which is frankly, hilarious). Be kind to yourself while you’re in the trenches, it will get better and every year will be easier than the one before
Oh no doubt. We've got friends with older kids and we're getting a bunch of hot tips about what comes next - some good, some bad.
One of my friends swears the best day in a parent's life is the day you change the last diaper. But the second best is the day your kids beat you at chess.
So I've got a lot to look forward to
That’s rough, buddy.
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Patient: "Uh, there are systemic reasons I can't avoid stress, doc."
Doctor: (Dusts off hands) "Well, my job is done here!"
Sadly. No one wants to hire a hermit to live in their garden these days.
NoW HIRING: Reclusive nature-loving gardener. Duties: Lurk in my front yard garden 40 hours a week and tend my garden but don't interact with me, and I won't interact with you. All gardening tools & materials provided. Salary: $500k.
🤤🤤🤤
Grotesque
The only way for me to avoid stress would be suicide and even then there would probably be some cunt in the afterlife like "nah, nah, nah no rest yet, because you are here early you have to work off the remaining years you should have been alive and then we'll talk about interests, oh wait that's kinda like it is now...
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