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Life Isn’t As Serious As We Make It Out To Be

When making decisions, we have this disabling tendency to imagine everything in terms of forever and ever. We think that if we don’t pick the right career, the right path, the right husband, the right job, the right time to have kids, the right amount to save, that the world will come crashing down around us. All of this pressure that we’ve built up for ourselves, doesn’t exist naturally. We are the ones creating it, and we are the ones perpetuating it
We take our decisions very seriously, and their outcomes even more so. “But what if I do this, and then it doesn’t work out?” Contrary to popular belief, the world actually does not end. It keeps going, and we keep going. Life isn’t as big of a deal as we make it out to be.
Change is inevitable. Nothing is permanent. Why not use that to our advantage and start taking more positive risks?
From the middle finger project, post Life Isn’t As Serious As We Make It Out To Be

"Distress indicates a lack of mental clearness, and since
clearness is possible, distress is unnecessary."

1500 Ways to Escape the Human Jungle, # 1032