There is not one Boredom. There are more Boredoms: —There’s The Boredom of Stagnation, routine —There’s The Boredom of Seeking to be entertained, seeking to be busy, seeking to be Distracted (from existence) —There’s The Boredom which is a sign — sign that you’re bored —There’s The Boredom which is a state — state of …
Author: Janus
Healthy Relationship With Fear
Fear is not completely illusionary. It’s usually 90% illusionary It’s better to be wrong 9 times out of 10 and live then be right 9 times out of 10 and die Fear is duly overcompensating You should learn from that ancient, evolutionary mechanism It’s the one whose over-prepared and overreacting that survives With …
Make up Twice
Always make up twice for your shortcomings When you always make up for your shortcomings — you don’t lose respect for yourself. And others may even respect you more. Few can admit to falling short and fewer still are generous enough with their efforts to overcompensate When you always make up for your …
Good Deeds
Good deeds don’t make you good Protecting the planet doesn’t make you good Giving to charity doesn’t make you good Not eating animals doesn’t make you good Protecting the oppressed doesn’t make you good Goodness is not some stupid checklist Goodness is not some game Goodness is not scoring points Obviously I’d rather …
Wisdom-Making
You don’t want to pride yourself in your wisdom This will make you foolish When you incentivize this ideal of being wise, saying wise things and coming up with wise observations — you incentivize artificial fabrication of wisdom and self-delusion. this also entails deluding others You go through your single life and all …
Make It Harder AND Make It Easier
Some always make it hard for themselves Some always make it hard for themselves and sometimes it results in arriving where no one else has been Sometimes it results in nothing but hardship Some always make it easy for themselves Some of those find a clever way to solve the same problem: quicker, easier …
Thank You Corona for Less Sports, Panem Et Circenses and All That Fucking Stupid Nonsense
Sport is dumb You watch sports to kill your boredom You end up more tired, more lazy, more bored You hate yourself because you achieved nothing — you were watching sports You hate your life because it’s terribly fucking boring — you were only sitting in front of a tv I sometimes play a …
Lying on the Beach Gets Bad Rep
lying on the beach gets bad rep lying in the sun is meditation lying in the sun is spirituality franticly running around seeing places, scoring landmarks, taking photos, as if to some report, now that is ambitious, that is mundane, that is worldly and lowly and rushed and profane and greedy and low energy …
Mistakes Are the Real Résumé
Your failures are your real résumé The more the better A few big failures is a terrible résumé Many small and medium failures are a great résumé Means you’ve TRIED Likely you’ve learnt Anyone can replicate “success”, once or twice Anyone can pretend “success”, look success And yet there’s no success without failure If …
Perfection Is Boring and Sick
perfection is boring this is not even to vindicate imperfection this is to destroy perfection perfection is a malicious aim perfection is a poisonous dream perfection is a product of an imperfect artist, imperfect creator there’s nothing interesting about perfection nothing perfect about perfection perfection is not real it’s a sick …