checking facebook really feels like u are microdosing mass psychosis wow

With gas prices rising and private transportation becoming more costly, now is the time for the government to change our urban design, pivot policies, and encourage people to use more bikes, walk more, and choose public transportation instead. Widen the bike lanes. Lower bike prices. Teach people how to bike. Nationalize the buses and make them cheaper and more efficient. Make the trains free. Widen the sidewalks. Make more pedestrians. There’s so much we can change. We shouldn't always be dependent on cars and gas prices.

I’m in love with this sentence: “The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

“I’ve been on antidepressants on and off (mostly on) since I was in my late teens. I’ve struggled for years with depression and anxiety, and the medication has seemed to help. But I’ve often wondered what it would be like if I tried to stop,” writes a reader of Sigal Samuel’s advice column, Your Mileage May Vary. “There’s still a lot we don’t know about how antidepressants work. How much of what I felt to be them “working” might have been a placebo? And I’m a very different person now than I was back then. What if I don’t need the medication anymore?” So do you owe it to yourself to learn who you would be off medication? Samuel says no. “A common trope in the discourse on antidepressants is the worry that taking psychiatric medication means you’re moving away from your ‘true self' or ‘true personality.’ That leads some people to wonder if they’re failing that self by not seeing what they’d be like off the medication. But I don’t think any of us has one ‘true self.’ We are always being shaped and reshaped by everything we encounter,” Samuel writes. Find out more by reading the rest of the Your Mileage May Vary column:

You cannot rush life. Things happen when they are supposed to happen. Your role is to show up everyday and give it your best. Your best will not be the same everyday. There are days you’ll be motivated and some you’ll feel defeated. And such is life! Keep keeping on!

isn’t it so funny and so humbling when the universe hands you exactly what you once wished for only to realize it’s actually not what you want at all

Even if you think you understand something complicated after cursory exposure, you almost certainly don’t understand it well enough to hold forth on the topic, Arthur C. Brooks wrote in 2023: https://theatln.tc/U2fDzEb2 The internet has fed a huge reservoir of good information, but it has also created an explosion of nonsense. Some of what people see is straight-up fake news—predatory attempts to swindle consumers. But much of the bad advice on the web actually originates in a psychological phenomenon called “the illusion of explanatory depth,” a phenomenon similar to the famous Dunning-Kruger effect, which explains how people with low levels of skill in an activity tend to overrate their competence. One explanation for this is “hypocognition”—people don’t know what they don’t know. As researchers have shown, when a person’s confidence is highest though their actual knowledge is low, they become very believable to others—despite not being reliable. And the more inaccurate people are, the more they tend to be swayed by their own underinformed overconfidence. The two ways we fall prey to the illusion are as consumers and as producers, Brooks continued. The plight of the consumer of misinformation is the hardest to address, because it isn’t always easy to know when someone is a true expert or just flush with false confidence. The key question to ask is “Does the source of this technical assertion have a genuine technical background?” If the answer is no, proceed with caution. The second condition—being a supplier of bad information—is easier to treat. “Learning about novel ideas is a thrill, and indeed, many researchers believe that interest itself is a positive emotion—a source of pleasure rooted in the evolutionary imperative to learn new things,” Brooks wrote. “Cruising the web in search of interesting things is great fun. But beware your own susceptibility to the illusion of explanatory depth.” Read more: https://theatln.tc/U2fDzEb2

As a therapist, I want to tell you: “You loved him because love is in you. You had fun because you are fun. You felt happy because you are a happy person. You gave your all because that is who you are. You have a really beautiful way of loving, and you are going to be okay.”

"Time waits for no one." If there is one movie that perfectly captures the messy, beautiful, and fleeting nature of youth, it’s The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. It starts off so lighthearted—just a girl trying to fix small mistakes—but by the end, it leaves you with such a heavy, gorgeous realization about moving forward. We’ve all wished for a "reset" button at some point, but this film reminds us why the moments we can’t change are the ones that matter most. Still a masterpiece. 🚲 Sauce: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

That moment when you were finally doing okay. And then suddenly, it comes back. The doubt. The heaviness. The quiet regret. But maybe this is what we often forget: Hindi linear ang paghilom. In life, we don’t just “get better” once and for all. We cycle. May mga araw na magaan, parang kaya mo na ulit. At may mga araw na mabigat, parang bumalik ka nanaman sa simula. But no, you're not going back to zero. Every time you revisit those feelings, you’re not the same person anymore. Mas may alam ka na. Mas may lakas ka na. So kapag dumating ulit yung moment na akala mo okay ka na… pero hindi pa pala, huwag mong isipin na nag-fail ka. You’re just being human. At gaya ng dati, malalampasan mo rin ‘to. Hindi dahil madali kundi dahil natuto ka na. At kakayanin mo ulit.

unfortunately, the tone of your voice was a bit different, and perhaps you even seemed more distant that usual. fret not, for i will take initiative and exile myself for you, saving you the trouble of doing so

Love bombing my wife for 70 years straight then ghosting her (dying)

the one (perhaps only) thing i'll always like about growing older and maturing is the never-ending opportunity to develop and refine your personal taste in pretty much anything. fashion, food, music, literature, art, design, furniture: the older you get, the more knowledge, insight and experience you acquire and it all adds up to a treasure of source material to create a new you from. carve, prune, distill, expand, sculpt, evolve - you can recreate yourself always and aging gracefully is all about endlessly enriching yourself through that recreation.

i don't drink, i don't smoke, my back hurts, and loud noise overstimulates me. i NEED to be funny and good at art