Having a job is stressful. So is not having a job. Working in corporate is stressful. So is working on the fields or at home. Having 20 clients is stressful. So is having zero. Managing a big house is stressful. So is living in a small one. Eating alone is stressful. So is cooking for a family of four. Not finding a husband is stressful. So is living with one. Not having money at all is stressful. So is not having more than enough. Not having what you want is stressful. So is having everything you want and trying to figure out what's next. Living the fast life is stressful. So is the slow life, if you've only lived the fast.
Everything brings stress, especially the kind of life you romanticise because you've never lived it before.
Of course, you can still quit your job. You can leave what doesn't suit you, serve you, or light you up right now. You can choose to eliminate the stress of a particular situation.
But stress will never cease to exist.
Easiest ways to make money :
- Men's lust
- Women's desire for beauty
- Elderly's health
- Children's education
- Rich people's fear of loss
- Brokies desire to get rich quickly
I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t want to download an app to check my car’s fluid levels. I don’t want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I don’t want to let Google know my location before showing me the search results. I don’t want to include a Teams link on the calendar invite. I don’t want to pay 50 different monthly subscription fees for all my software. I don’t want to upgrade to TurboTax platinum plus audit protection. I don’t want to install the Webex plugin to join the meeting. I don’t want to share my car’s braking data with the actuaries at State Farm. I don’t want to text with your AI chatbot. I don’t want to download the Instagram app to look at your picture. I don’t want to type in my email address to view the content on your company’s website. I don’t want text messages with promo codes. I don’t want to leave your company a five-star Google review in exchange for the chance to win a $20 Starbucks gift card. I don’t want to join your exclusive community in the metaverse. I don’t want AI to help me write my comments on LinkedIn. I don’t even want to be on LinkedIn in the first place.
I just want to pay for a product one time (and only one time), know that it’s going to work flawlessly, press 0 to speak to an operator if I need help, and otherwise be left alone and treated with some small measure of human dignity, if that’s not too much to ask anymore.
The marketing on sex these days is on steroids.
It’s almost inescapable. Everywhere you turn there is a hint of sex. I’m curious to see what society looks like 2 decades from now.
one thing americans genuinely seem not to understand is that celsius, like fahrenheit, makes complete intuitive and bodily sense to people who use that scale
If you haven’t talked to someone under the age of 20 recently they’re literally all varying levels of illiterate and I’m not trying to make a joke here
Remember when Ronaldo was taking all the free-kicks "selfishly taking goals" away from Bruno and Rashford?
It's been over 2 years and Man Utd still haven't scored a free-kick since Ronaldo..
That one of the great tragedies of life is the paradox of wisdom and age. As you become wiser about life and the world, you have less time to apply it yourself. So you try to pass it down, but some things just can't be heard in youth. It only comes through the experience of living. And then the cycle repeats: you remember that someone tried to give you some gems and you didn't listen, so you try to do the same. It's a somewhat cruel time loop of sorts, and I ponder over the design sometimes.