In short, consuming the news widens the pool of potential competitors to include the entire world. We compare ourselves to people who have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with us As a result we feel smaller than we really are. Of course, this could be rationally countered - but we don't do that. The emotional consequences are real, bringing physical and hormonal changes in their wake. Our stress level rises. Our serotonin level falls. We bow our heads and shuffle our feet, broken. We make life harder for ourselves than it already is. High time to opt out-out of our absurd consumption of the news media and our absurd race to achieve status
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"Everything is gray when you’re not here. You’re the only color in my life.”
It was as if I was writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.
Eğer sınırlamalarınızla savaşırsanız, onları beslersiniz. Oysa yetenekleriniz değişmez değildir ve her şeyi öğrenmek mümkündür.
If you start looking at life as a learning process, you will only gain from negative experiences in life. Thus, every mistake you make is part of your learning process .
“One likes to think there’s something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I’ve learned one thing in my short life, it is that particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn’t conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.”
