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Well when you put it like that
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This reminds me of some amazing advice I picked up online, some years ago:
You don’t owe your past self anything.
I need this tattooed on the inside of my eyelids
I’ll provide the paint for the picture-perfect masterpiece that you will paint on the insides of your eyelids.
You mean your foreskin you lazy jew.
Oh shit, you’re right. I’m such a fuck-up.
again, huh? alright, since we’re feeling nice we’ll give you a break. but you’ll have to make it up to us somehow.
Spoiler
by cherishing yourself, and being patient with your own capabilities while allowing the opportunities to grow <3
I do that a lot.
Our destiny is controlled mostly by factors others than our thoughts or actions
Hmm. Your ““destiny”” is definitely up to yourself, but sometimes the limits can be very real. Most of the time they’re in our heads though
Wish that be true. For some people this might be more true, but for less fortunate certainty it isn’t.
None of us get to choose the hands we’re dealt, how many cards we get dealt, or how many cards we get to play, that’s fate/destiny. That’s a fact of life and there is an enormous difference between a good hand and a very bad hand. That said, each of us get to choose how we play our cards. While that won’t take a bad hand someone has been dealt and change it into a good hand, we are absolutely allowed to take a bad hand and play it even worse.
I actually like the gambling metaphor. Your opponents (billionaires, corporations, renters, etc.) have a strong hand and after check they will always win. I admit that we have some freedom to operate with our cards, but in practice it is often just enough to survive and have just as much resources as to be useful to the company you work in.
I mean I guess I could just start living in some nice house and building shit but I feel like the length of time before someone has a very serious problem with that is not going to be very long.
Loserspeak, you can acknowledge your limitations and still act towards your goals
To achieve nothing or a shadow of a substitute of the goal? I wish a house with a swimming pool, and I come from a lower class, do you really think it is achievable for someone earning lower than mediocre salary?
How big a house? And how big a pool? I know you said it’s just an example, but just thinking you have to save up and buy a pool on a meager salary then yeah, probably impossible. But a modest house near a lake? Now the whole lake could be your “pool”. Or what someone else said maybe a public pool close by.
I agree that some things are just “not in the cards” for most people. But if you change your perspective maybe you can have the things your after in a different capacity. Or else you can resign yourself to a depressing existence with the only thing you ever look forward to is the end of it.
Why do you wish to live with such a high footprint? Why not a modest apartment and a public swimming pool nearby? (Still unachievable for many, sadly, but much more realistic for anyone except the super wealthy.)
Not trying to bash on you, I really want to understand where you’re coming from.
This is my hypothetical wish for the sake of argument – an example of a common dream which is plainly unrealistic. Personally I do not have such consumerist whims.
My past mistakes a word.
I try, ok? I damn try.
