You cannot do it all. Walk 10,000 steps. Sleep 8 hours. Cook three meals. Keep your house clean. Take care of your family. Pursue your hobbies. Excel at your job. Every. Single. Day. That's not how real life works. That's a checklist designed to make you feel miserable. Like you're failing at everything. Truth is... some days, you'll eat healthy. Other days, you'll order takeout. Some days, you'll crush your work. Other days, you'll barely get through it. And that's okay. You can't optimize every part of your life. You're human, not a fucking machine. Do what you can. Let some things slide. Try again tomorrow. You don't need to do everything right to have a good life. It's okay to be imperfect.
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@megbasham On the basis there are 8 billion humans & only a few thousand wild tigers not in captivity I’m happy to go with tigers having much greater value than humans
I’ve had a lot of people asking me about the botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee, as well as the upcoming execution by firing squad that’s supposed to be livestreamed. Having spent nearly 20 years on death row, my thoughts and feelings about these things are so vast that I sometimes struggle to find a place to begin. I became close friends with a man who had committed murder. He was like a brother to me. I once watched him break down crying, trembling as he told me he wished he was as evil as the world believed him to be, because then he wouldn’t have to care about what he’d done. Fifteen years later, he was still having nightmares about it. I know in my soul that he would never hurt another person again. But I’ve also watched a man being stabbed to death in prison. I cried for days afterward, and something inside me was changed forever. I learned that some people are capable of extraordinary transformation, while others remain capable of terrible violence even behind prison walls. There are no simple answers here. No slogans or political arguments that can adequately address the complexity of human beings, guilt, punishment, and suffering.
But there is one thing I want to say about the upcoming execution by firing squad. Don’t watch it. Whatever you believe about the death penalty, even if you think the person being executed deserves to die, don’t watch it. You cannot witness a human being being killed and simply walk away unchanged. What you see becomes part of you. It follows you into places you never expected it to reach. There are things I witnessed in prison that I would give anything to forget, things that still cast a shadow over my life decades later. There’s a difference between understanding that terrible things happen in the world and deliberately making yourself a spectator to them. I don’t have all the answers about justice, punishment, or forgiveness. But I do know that killing another human being should never become so ordinary that we turn it into something to watch from the comfort of our living rooms.
@sharrond62 We are one of the most nature depleted countries on earth & hedgehogs are now an endangered species I’m sure we can park Churchill for a while & celebrate them
He spent his entire life tangled up on a short chain. That’s why I called him Rusty.
To see him now is a thing of beauty. One of the nicest and most gentle dogs you could ever wish to meet
Let’s also remember the four legged heroes of 9/11. Before any humans dare enter the rubble of the World Trade Centre Towers the rescue dogs went in first