telling your brain "i know you don't wanna do the thing and it'll be very uncomfortable for you at first but you can do it buddy. it'll be fine" is actually surprisingly effective. it sounds too simple but that fuckass organ WILL listen to you if you treat it with kindness lol
all women should sleep for 10 hours if they can, have afternoon siestas, ‘waste time’ with no guilt, have unproductive days of reading fiction, sunbathing and eating delicious food. every woman should relax more and allow the universe to take care of them and spoil them
Disappointing others is a necessity of life, and if you dare aim to please God, you must also learn to disappoint yourself. Embrace it. Disappoint. Be a failure. Be misunderstood. Deny the appetite. Defer the desire. Every no to the lesser is a whisper Yes to something greater
If you want to live a life that's aligned with who you genuinely are, stop "performing". Don't laugh at their stupid jokes. Don't respond just because they want you to. Don't lower your standards to fit in. Don't sacrifice your taste just because they don't have any. Don't do anything, anything... that makes you shrink yourself. That makes you dilute the very essence of who you already are. Let them do the work. Let them rise to your standards. Why not? They're not special. You are. You know who you are. It's your reality. Your life. Don't bend.
I dub the summer of 2026 the ITALIAN GRANDPA SUMMER. Fishing, cards, carbs, seafood, wine, sitting, sunning, contemplating. Slow dancing. A meander. Strolling. An aperitivo. A cig. A nice bench. Slowmaxxing. Eliminating the need for any sort of hurry. You can’t hurry up your life. Slow it down. Even. Slower. Enjoy enjoy enjoy. Remember. Life is for the living. You are alive.
I wanted a thousand things in my life, and most of them i didn't get. and i looked at myself the way this post is asking me to, and thought i wasn't smart enough. but years passed, and i started seeing what each of those things would have done to me if i had gotten them, and every single one would have destroyed me - some fast and some slow. everything i didn't get turned out to be the smartest thing that happened to me, but it was not my smartness. it was something else deciding on my behalf, because i was not smart enough to decide for myself. sometimes not getting what you want is the only proof that something out there loves you more than you were ever capable of loving yourself
You gotta be putting like 10x shots on net compared to what you’re currently doing. Most people take one shot every few years. To run up the score you should be putting up 2-3 shots a day minimum. At the end of each year you’ve shot thousands of shots while most people did nothing. It’s a numbers game. Your shooting percentage can be horrible and you’ll still lap everyone. Gotta score to win. Gotta shoot to score. Shoot more.
for all you know, this could be your last summer.
as homer wrote, you will never be lovelier than you are right now. so tell her she has a pretty smile. get lean or become a unit. find wonder in boarding the airplane. drink more coffee than you need. walk on the beach until your feet hurt. write your girlfriend a note on a tuesday. waste money because its not all about retirement. pull over at the lookout. ask the uber driver about his life. tell the woman in the elevator you like her shoes and mean it. call your mother. ask the waiter his favorite thing on the menu and order that.
theres so much life in the slow moments, and you sprint past it chasing the next thing. but at any time, in any situation, you can find the good. smile. be happy. recognize it for a one of one life experience. what good is walking around a curmudgeon when tomorrow could be curtains.
for heavens sake, flirt with the world.
I read it somewhere "We romanticized the wrong organ the stomach is more emotional than the heart" and it feels so true. We feel butterflies in our stomach and when we're sad we lose our appetite our stomach gets affected by emotions way more than we realize.