humanity
Mental health is a fundamental right; the future of humanity depends on it.
Avoiding the Consequences
No one can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say. No one can hear you make a mistake, or cares if you aren’t perfectly put together at all hours of the day. It isn’t a big deal if you did some things you aren’t proud of, or something certain authorities don’t like. In space, what matters is surviving. When everyone has a common enemy, differences don’t matter, only unity.
By Sarah Luchies4 years ago in Psyche
A young man swayed by life advice
It seems that we have received all kinds of life advice since childhood. Parents advise you to give up your hobbies and study hard in academic classes, teachers advise you to pay less attention to your favorite literature and do better in math. These advice seems to be unreasonable in some sense. Do you really have the ability to pursue those hobbies that you've stuck with for years when you're running for life and overwhelmed by reality? When you can't get better educational resources, good cultural atmosphere, good teacher guidance, you are good at the subject, will there be better development? In some ways, life advice is "useful" and will make us "happier" or "better" in the future. So we follow life advice, avoid the detour, get there easier, feel smug, and see a lot of grown-ups, who didn't take life advice, line up a bunch of "what if" sentences, beat their chests, and feel miserable. We give ourselves too much life advice, so we look around, turn back, indulge in the past and fantasy, and even stop fighting. I've heard a lot of parents tell their children, I was just like you and I didn't listen to advice, so I'm poor and unhappy now. But if you think about this sentence carefully, is your whole life, or one thing, really going to never change because you didn't listen to someone else?
By John Wilson4 years ago in Psyche
Life Calculus
It comes for me quite often. Far more than is preferable, and to be frank I'd prefer it if it never appeared at all. But it does appear. It's an inevitability and that is something I just cannot abide. Good job I'm not the type to take such things in my stride. I'd wager you have no idea what I could possibly be talking about, and that's no fault of yours, so I'll explain. This entity I speak of, the one that 'comes for me', the 'it' that I have no love for in this place, is not actually anything at all. At least not in the traditional sense. What I refer to is that which would best be descibed as 'the ordinary'. The dull, the humdrum, the everyday, the norm or my personal favorite, the average. Why am I so bothered by these 'things'? Well it's simple really. I despise the unremarkable in this life and so much of living is just that. An endless sequence of moments that fail to delineate themsleves from each other, so much so that refering to them as a sequence gives said moments far more credit than they deserve and do a great diservice to actual sequences. If time is moving forward and all that's happening in this timeframe is nothing whatsoever, is it a true sequence? If a series of events transpire and I am there to experience them, and they are all as painfully unremarkable and boring as each other, is it meaningful for me to say I experienced seperate moments? Sure, a clock ticked in the background but all that happened was that I was bored. Can I use calculus in a situation such as this? If I took the integral of 'I was bored' and sliced it into smaller and smaller peices of 'I was bored' approaching a limit of infinity, was I more bored or less bored? The answer to this lays outside the question. The very act of me trying to utilise calculus to measure such a thing may not have changed 'the bored', but created something diferent alltogether. It created a moment where I was no longer bored! The concept of trying to take the integral of boredem is in itself, not boring at all and thus we have the broken the cycle. The moral of the story is: ridiculous things such as utilizing advanced mathematics on the concept of boredom my save you from the ordinary, at least for a moment. Imagine if I used a differential equation? I have no doubt it could be done but alas... my mathematics are not up to scratch when it gets to that level. So as I've demonstrated, the ordinary cannot be abolished from ones life. In fact I think such things as these to be a great motivator as the boring and the mediocre are brilliant agents of negative reinforcement. since 97% of our time falls into the realm of the mediocre, its motivates us to do something... Anything to make life the way it shoud be. Fun, Enjoyable, relaxing, interesting etc. ... Now in many ways this may lead to a life that inherently rejects the norm and the averege. A terrible job is one of the first things to remove from ones life. You could be pulling in serious dollars a year and if that factors into your decision to stay at this job and reject the opposite then I'm sorry to say, but youre priorities are wrong. No one need large amounts of money and if you think you do then you are greedy by nature, You have kids? Well, you dont need stupid amounts of money for kids either. And if you think you need loads of money for the kids youre wrong, plain and simple. Sound like something we were discuusing earlier? I'm referring to being a person this is everything Ive just disscused. You end up becoming, boring, mediocre and worst of all average... you and your children. this my friends, is the thing I fear most. Being average. And for that I'd probably need a Doctorate in Advanced Mathematics to even begin to apply calculus to this problem. Maybe it's time to enroll in University and study your Phd in some obsure mathematical field. There's hope for you yet!
By Luke Thompson4 years ago in Psyche










