yep. making good choices over time reaps rewards.

society is weird. everyone i meet the past few years is totally utterly miserable, so i’d rather just chill at home or with my few friends who aren’t miserable. misery is a choice people make.

you won’t ever feel secure with more money.

you will adjust and then think ‘oh but just a little bit more would be perfect’

Take control of you life

this is the problem though. i’ve noticed a huge explosion in people refuse to acknowledge this is at all possible. they are ‘victims’ of their emotions now apparently. not to mention ‘society’.

i saw a big thread on askreddit, the number one reply about ‘what do you find burdensome’ was ‘making choices’. I laughed out loud at the absurdity of it all. sooo many people just want to be thoughtless blobs that make zero effort and expect to be rewarded for it and think life is ‘unfair’ that they have get up to go to the bathroom to poop.

plenty of people wake up to clean quiet houses who have kids.

they are paid to be nice to you.

stay in a hotel and you’ll get the same treatment

yeah i have never heard of ayn rand being required school reading.

animal farm, yes. that’s typically a 10th grade book

have you been to uni lately? that doesn’t exist anymore really.

most professors are adjuncts working 80 hour weeks for below minimum wage.

my life is pretty much perfect.

i just don’t have a wife or kids. that is all that is missing. but when i date my happiness with my life is a major turn off for most women I meet. Apparently I’m supposed to be miserable with my life because I’m not a billionaire or something.

i feel like i’m the only person in this thread who never knew anyone dumb enough to read that crap, let alone enjoy it or think it’s great.

must be nice. never had that experience. been hospitalized a few times and nobody showed up, not even family. they just called and told me i was a selfish jerk for getting sick/hurt.

that’s what most erotica is like. and yeah it basically is a magic wizard porn fest after the first book.

because it’s basically erotica

Vonnegut and Haruki Murakami.

I read three books by each author and was shocked at how boring/bad/repetitive they were. I will never understand why people are so obsessed with these authors. I guess they just like the simplistic/repetitive stuff they do. I probably would have liked them when I was 16, but I read them as a 30 year old adult.

pretty much. that’s why if you have a few million you can pretty much buy a visa/residency for any country.

Porn is just another tool. People use it in lots of different ways.

Way too many people generalize it’s use by other people, mostly because of the shame around sex and sexual identity.

But that’s also true of any media or medium. Tons of people still shame TV or video games as evil/bad inherently. And judge others consumption but feel victimized when they are judged for their consumption preferences.

Doing stuff. Exercise, learning, projects, etc.

I can’t understand people who want to do nothing. As in, sit there passively and watch a screen and/or drink and complain about their life. I feel like a lot of people do this and it is why they are miserable and unhappy. At least that’s how it comes across to me. I only ever want to do that if I’m exhausted, injured, or sick. In fact I most of the last month watching TV because I was injured, and then very ill for about a total of 3 weeks. It was super depressing/miserable, I also was so weak I had to get delivery of meals/groceries. Blows my mind that many people I meet want to be like that 24/7, like I went on a date two weeks ago with a lady and she said 3 weeks sitting around doing nothing sounded blissful to her… I was going absolutely insane.

I find it hard to make friends because I want to do things and most people… don’t. Most of my friends are very active people, but it feels like the vast majority of socialization among people is just complaining and drinking. My Thanksgiving holiday was 3 days of listening to people complain, watch sports, and drink.

I have on a regular basis. So much so I quit a lot of stuff to avoid their endless insane stupidity and their raw emotional takes that are totally delusional.

nah this is exactly why i gave up a lot of social stuff. too many bubble-brain idiots who become violent the second they hear an opinion or an idea that they mildly disagree with. it’s not just young people either.

i never dealt with such craziness 10+ years ago, but it started exploding with social media growth and is rampant now.

we only ever put the heat above 64 if we had comnpany and that was to 68.

never had central AC my entire life.

isn’t that because of taylor swift?