@BonesawMD Like they are hoping to expedite the end of whatever obligation they have to me. We're friends! Don't be so hasty to close the loop. This mindset has also given me a more generous spirit: i buy drinks and lunch for colleagues, and just don't send them a venmo for it. Who cares!
@BonesawMD Big fan of this mindset-I will buy dinner for people and they freak out about paying me back. Im at a point of relative abundance in my life-so im not missing it. For me, theres a sense that if someone is rushing to pay me back, they are ending the friendship
Erling Haaland, Norway’s large, maniacal striker, has several exceedingly Norwegian traits. He sometimes exercises by chopping wood in the forest. He consumes 6,000 calories a day. After training sessions, he drinks raw milk. He owns a tax-sheltered investment company in Luxembourg named Pillage. He bought an edition of the “Heimskringla,” a 13th-century Old Norse saga, for $130,000—then donated it to his local library because, he explained, “I’ve never been much of a reader.” He has flowing blond hair, often compared to a Viking’s. He brings the intensity of a raiding party to the sport. Haaland scores goals at a higher rate than almost any soccer player ever. He has said, “I think of football all the time.” His wake-up alarm plays the theme song for the Champions League. He once posted a photo of himself on a plane, staring ahead intensely, with the caption “Just raw dogged a 7 hour flight no phone no sleep no water no food only map.” The Guardian once called him a “ravenous Nordic goal-yeti.”
Haaland’s style of play elicits not wonder but terror. He is enormous: six feet five, 200 pounds, about the size and speed of the N.F.L. wide receiver Randy Moss. “Watching him, I sometimes find myself giggling as I might over a big, obscene crash at a demolition derby,” Zach Helfand writes. Read more: https://t.co/iAtLMOvrv0
Old king syndrome is a political state where corrupt officials, eunuchs, and the harem ladies work together or against each other to control a doddering senile ruler to enrich their families and interest groups.