The past is history,
the future is a mystery,
but today is a gift,
that is why it is called the present. - somebody
Now
the past has gone by/
9 "essential amino acids"
histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine
If you're sensitive to background noises like me, this should help.
Rationale: Over expose yourself to stressful stimuli so you get used to it.
Desensitize and get used to the yourself to noise by putting some unpleasant noise on the background,
Search youtube for traffic noise, city live stream, background conversation, people talking, highway traffic live
Remind yourself of the grandness of the world you live in. The village, the town, the city, the state, the world, the planet, the sun, stars, the galaxy, the universe.
and the immense amount of history that brought you to be alive this very day
Nothing in this universe said your existence was likely and yet here you are
Cherish your existence, it was not likely.
Remind yourself in that grand scope of history you will be but a blip on the grand narrative
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
If you let your thoughts be so easily disturbed by the opinion of some malignant monkeys,
then your life will be suffering.
- Marcus Aurelius, probably
From Monkeyism to Stoicism or from Savagery to Virtue
Monkeys can be primal, savage creatures of the wild. They are slave to the whim of their emotions and instincts.
Do not be like them.
Do not let your emotions lead you to terrible consequences.
Reflect and listen to reason. *The quality of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
Sisyphus gets punished by the gods to push a boulder up a hill and having it roll right back down and repeating the process for eternity.
- toil = push rock up hill
- fate = rock rolls down hill
It's can be thought of as an analog for the life of a bored person, the montony, humdrum routine of life, but unlike Sisyphus's immortal infinite task, we die
- toil = boring task, routine job, etc
- fate = death
[–]SleepyConscience 16.0k points 6 years ago
The scariest thing about getting older isn't aging. It's watching all the possibilities life had when you were younger are start to decay. Virtually every day you'll be hit with the question, "So this is it, huh?" and the sickening realization that you understand people who commit suicide more and more with each passing day. Life takes on an increasingly meaningless and tedious feeling as you get into your 30s. One of the best ways to get through these doldrums is to have an interest you really care about outside of work, friends and family. Something that no matter how much your life sucks you can still do and find satisfaction and meaning in and nobody can take away from you. The thing is, it takes time to nurture a hobby so that has this effect. The better you get at something, the more you tend to enjoy doing it.
Have you heard of the story of Pandora's Box?
Yes, I have. Wasn't the moral curiosity would doom mankind or something?
It seems so from a surface level but I think it has some better lessons because the story itself is just hokie, like most Greek myths.
You mean to tell me that the story of Pandora's Box is BS? Zeus isn't going to like hearing this.
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