The Rambler is a place for posting random or rambling thoughts, sayings, words of wisdom, famous and not so famous quotes,
wishes, confessions, secrets, my next tattoo or messenger status. Ramblings you create are private by default and you can choose to make them public if you wish.
If you can slay the dragon you can have the princess. in order to get to something good, more favorable or preferable to you you need go through something unpleasant or something you would reluctantly do
Dostoyevsky once said:
The thought once occurred to me that if one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, one at which the most fearsome murderer would tremble, shrinking from it in advance, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.
The Goldilocks Rule states that humans experience peak motivation when working on tasks that are right on the edge of their current abilities. Not too hard. Not too easy. Just right.
It makes no difference if it's alcohol, marijuana, nicotine, caffeine, cocaine, or sugar. They're all drugs. In effect you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. It's all about moderation.
An idea becomes pornographic when the idea of doing it is weighted more heavily than actually accomplishing what the goal or value sets out to accomplish.
“Hate is a second-order effect of repressed pain, and identity is the second-order effect of an unhealed self.” by Zat Rana https://link.medium.com/ipoLzvZEX0
Big challenges don’t trip us up. Little petty annoyances cumulatively throw our lives off-balance. Office politics at work, your commute, errands, meaningless news, gossip, tiny bouts of envy, social media, so it goes.
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” — Charles Bukowski