You'll regret it if you get married, you'll regret it if you don't get married. You'll regret it if you have kids and you'll regret it if you don't. Kierkegaard said this 200 years ago as follows - whatever you choose, you'll regret it, because the problem isn't in your choices, it's in romanticizing your life. A person always finds an untravelled path alluring and mysterious. That's why the issue isn't making the right choice. It's choosing and deciding which regret you'll live with. In life, we must choose our regret.
People who spend long periods of time at home and slowly lose the desire to go outside often think they're just resting. But psychologically, many of them are experiencing something called mental rumination. It's a state where the brain starts slowing down while the number of thoughts inside keeps increasing and the motivation to do anything slowly disappears. The mind gets stuck in the past, worries about the future and burns itself out. This isn't laziness, it's a nervous system stuck in survival mode. And the longer it lasts, the more distant normal life begins to feel. And the difficult part is that you usually can't escape it through one massive burst of motivation. And sometimes,recovery starts with just one small step.
WE ARE DOOMED AS A NATION.
One of the rarest things which happened good in this country was UPI.
Each and every citizen paying was happy as its very convenient to do digital payments and you don't need to keep any cash.
But now even government hated this.
Now government is planning to reintroduce
MDR ON UPI TRANSACTIONS ABOVE ₹2,000 FOR LARGE MERCHANTS.
Boss you distribute freebies for your own benefit, corruption at peak but you want to loot public's pocket by taxing them in whatever way you can.
Government's job is not to increase revenues by collecting taxes, you are there to do welfare of the people.
Shitty policies and ease of living becomes much harder.
We are literally doomed as a nation.
You've all paid your taxes before the July 31 deadline. Now, with your tax money, the Govt has launched yet another campaign. These posters will soon be seen across the country.
Double standards don't exist, but...
"You're a girl" is a reprimand.
"He's a boy" is an excuse.
"She was drunk" makes it worse.
"He was drunk" makes it understandable.
"She puts her career first is aflaw.
"He puts his career first" is ambition.
"She's 40" means "already"
"Heis 40° means "only."
I'll have more to say on this soon. I've covered body image in Hollywood for a while. While we don't know what Ariana is going through privately, this seems coordinated and calculated. She drops her album two days ago, releases a music video literally about being thin, where she shows off her emaciated body, and suddenly her team is upset there's "scrutiny" of her public image? You can't have it both ways. She does this cat and mouse game. Her song is called "petal" and she paints herself as this thin delicate flower, showing off every bone and rib, then it's 'how dare you' discuss her body. There's literally a scene in the video about her weight. I hope she does take some time off to reflect and get well. But she's playing into things herself. She's very online and likes to feed the beast. Then she's a victim of public scrutiny. We're not allowed to discuss? Ok...
It’s not wrong to talk about Ariana Grande’s weight. I wish we’d talked more about Karen Carpenter when she was still alive. I didn’t think we’d have to talk about it again, but this Ozempic craze has made it necessary.
Young girls are watching and we can’t let them think this is healthy!
Karen showed signs for 7 years before she started treatment and even then, her life couldn’t be saved. Her heart was damaged. But she denied it and said she was just “pooped.”
Karen was 32 when she died, one year younger than Ariana is now.