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[-] Zink@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

I’ve gone through a lot of crap to learn and really believe that happiness and contentment can only come from within. The outside world has a lot to offer, but it will never give you that.

Unfortunately the outside world and circumstances CAN make it pretty damn difficult or impossible.

It’s a cliche to think of a monk or philosopher saying stuff like “if you want to be happy, be happy,” but that’s a lot of how I I’ve come to see it. And obviously it’s not that simple, we are pretty damn complicated, but that’s the spirit behind it.

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[-] solarzones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

I am with Anon. It’s all kinda surreal now. But I’m gonna live it up the way I know how.

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[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

bet a month's rent anon doesn't exercise and their sleep is fucked. I was this doomy too, before I fixed my shit.

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[-] Mir@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is this supposed to be a "the world has turned into shit" take, even though it's been like this for ages (way before the 4chan poster, or anyone alive for that matter, was born)?

[-] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Modern life as we know it is relatively recent. Maybe 150 years MAX. Sure things have always had a tinge of bad, but take things in context.

We're in an age where our grandparents or great grandparents, people we had exposure to and spoke to, experienced the start of monumental technological advancement in a relatively short period of time. Cars, planes, phones, movies, photos. Consider how much of your life is centered around these advancements.

We live in an extremely different and short lived period of humanity, where people we end up putting in charge of important societal tasks speak as if things like the economy are laws of nature, despite existing in its current form for maybe 2-3 generations at most.

This poster is experiencing the culmination of these advancements. The alienation, the over stimulation, the speed at which life takes place. It's starting to show itself as a bit of a dead end as the ice caps melt away.

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