April 2021

Why can’t we just be happy? Why do things have to be difficult? Why can’t we just enjoy life and feel good all the time? I mean, it’s such a simple question, and I think many people would just say, you know, life sucks, life is difficult, and you can’t enjoy it all the time. […]

Build your life like you’re building a house. I like this metaphor, this way of looking at it. I got inspired by seeing a Youtube series of a guy building a log cabin, mostly by himself, with some help, and he just filmed the process. The log cabin building series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXk8bfcxoc0&list=PL4Mh08dMZMVwB0nhsI6mkfq7kYOb5Tu4T Condensed single-video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_6b_cwuB6A

“Take the edge off.” I like this expression. This idea that you’re just going to reduce the worst of something. You’re not going to fix it. You’re not going to make the bad thing go away. But just- maybe not even significantly reduce it, but just around the edges of it, just take a little

I think one of the biggest objections to being tame, domesticated, is that a tame animal is really either a pet or livestock. I mean, what else? You’re gonna be a pet, like a cat or a dog, or kept in a cage like a bird, or maybe you’re gonna be livestock, like a cow