@jussipekonen the problem isn’t the press, it’s that people blindly believe them.
When you realize most of what’s discussed (or even memed about) is about things happening to people you don’t personally know in places you’ve never been and you have zero ability to affect a change in the situation…it’s easy to just let it all go.
The people who are truly unhappy spend all their energy trying to convince others their chosen lies are the truth.
Embrace the truth and focus on what YOU can do to change things. This requires complete honesty with the one person people lie to most often: themselves.
@matigo maybe 😉
I’ve always been very selective about what I choose to read. Or watch.
@variablepulserate here, you don't even have to be a citizen to vote anymore, it seems like :P
@joeo10 that's the beautiful thing about standards…there are so many to choose from 😉
One of the most important things I've learned in life is not to give help to people who clearly don't want it. Even if you can clearly see the icebergs they're heading for and have pointed them out numerous times, people have to be accountable for their own actions. You can't save someone from themselves.
As the great Geddy Lee sang many, many times:
"If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice."
@matigo I said that wrong. Nashville is the kind of place people go to for “reasons.” Where I live, not so much, unless you like Golf.
@matigo well done, my friend.
I took a different journey insofar as I jumped off the cliff and had to face almost all the fears that built up for 25 years all at once. That and outside of my job, car, and a handful of baubles, I don’t have too much from my past life.
It also helps that I moved to a new part of the world for me. It’s also the kind of place you wouldn’t casually go to (e.g Nashville), which means the odds of encountering people I don’t want to deal with…are basically nil. Also, it’s all new to me, meaning very little to trigger bad memories.