@macklemore "All proceeds will benefit organizations supporting the Palestinian people and movement." does "benefit" actually mean "donate" here? the wording is vague when it could've been more explicit
I don’t care if Ed Sheeran doesn’t have absolutely perfect opinions on the Israel/Gaza conflict. That’s not his job!
It’s totally fine if he just acknowledges there’s tremendous suffering (yes, on both sides), and admits that he doesn’t know enough.
one time i couldn’t reach a book on the top shelf at the bookstore and i was too shy to talk to an employee so i put in an online order and came back an hour later to pick it up :/
tip: if you feel unfulfilled by how you spent your time today, you can stay up late to try to combat the sense of dissatisfaction. this will ensure that you feel even worse tomorrow
George Orwell worried that a shrinking vocabulary would eventually produce a shrinking range of thought.
It is difficult to think a nuanced thought with a blunt language.
This is free advice from an expensive psychologist. If you’re an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don’t make everything a matter of life and death.
This sentence by Van Gogh hits hard:
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”