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 Humans are dumb. We are a bunch of fuckups and misfits. It's surprising we've made it this far. But we've survived some crazy shit. Maybe we'll survive this too. The planet will live on regardless. Or not. Doesn't matter. In a few billion years the sun will expand and burn it to a cinder. Doesn't change the fact that you have to live your life right now. Kiss your partner. Play a video game. Chat with a friend. Help a stranger. It's all still good even if it's meaningless. Savor the good. 6 comments
@malcircuit It is becoming increasingly difficult to be kind to myself. Sometimes I feel so caught up in the current state of the world that I forget my own needs. I really needed to hear those words. Thank you. 💜 Rather than overestimate my degrees of freedom to react one way or another to inputs, I try very hard to notice when my initial reactions are beyond my control, which tbh is always. There’s a great deal of distraction available in this self-examination. Distraction, for me, is in the small things of which @malcircuit speaks. If I’m distracted, I am uninterested in those things clamoring for my and everyone’s attention these days. Fook dot shite! SQUIRREL!!!!  @malcircuit What helps me is to think of right here, right now as this secret place only known to myself and those here with me. It flips the script. No longer is this moment worthless because it will vanish forever. Instead, that's the very reason it's so special. Just to be clear, I count myself among the fuckups and misfits of humanity. We're all just a bunch of apes that are too clever for our own good sometimes lol I've always loved Terry Pratchett's quote on the name of our species: "The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee." It's so true. |
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The good stuff is all the more precious for it's impermanence. It's easy to miss. Easy to forget. Easy to drown under entropy and darkness.
But it's there if you look for it, watch for it. If you are kind to yourself it might even come to you, like a deer that steps out from the brush into the open when you sit perfectly still.
Be kind to yourself