#Modern Life Challenges

[theesotericecho]

Stuck in Traffic & Smiling: How Stoicism Teaches Us to Chill Out and Control What We Can

Caption: “Finding Serenity in the Midst of Chaos: Embracing Stoicism in Daily Commutes” – A visualization of calm amidst the hustle, inspired by the principles of stoicism.Credit: Image created by DALL·E, envisioned by David Sawin for The Esoteric Echo. You find yourself in a seemingly endless sea of cars, with the clock becoming a frequent focal point as your stress levels soar. Welcome to the…

[thinkscholar]

The Paradox of Pursuing Happiness: Why We Overlook Simple Joys

Explore the intriguing cycle of seeking happiness while overlooking the very things that bring it. Matthew Kelly delves into why we often find ourselves too occupied in the pursuit, missing out on genuine contentment

On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don’t do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy. – By: Matthew Kelly The Happiness Hamster Wheel Have you ever watched a hamster on its wheel? It runs and runs, thinking it’s getting somewhere, but alas, it remains in the same…

[dizquized]

FOR YOUR OWN SANITY, do not look in the tags, dont do it. its not worth it. a demon possessed me or something, i dont know.

[oracleofsecrets]

if you have a Mole Interest, you can experience Molekin in the turn-based rpg video game Sea of Stars (which is really really really good u should play it)

[palatinewolfsblog]

The rocky Top (for my dear Friend @rubenesque-dollyd-93 ...) Gentle reminder: "If nothing ever changed, there would be no such thing as butterflies." Wendy Mass.

[blessphemy]

reading this book called "the comfort crisis" about Challenging Oneself in the age of modern amenities and expectation of constant ease, and, while there are some interesting discussion of psychological science re: building of resilience etc., the author acting out-of-touch with modern survival strifes kinda detracts from the core arguments

stuff like "in an age where we're always climate controlled at 70 degrees F and our worst fear is giving a bad powerpoint presentation that your boss looks at you disapprovingly—" are we really glossing over the stress of doing Bad at work when people are surviving paycheck to paycheck and living out of cars/homeless "—in a time of plenty where we do not encounter true persistent hunger—" are you sure about that. like are you Sure. "—back in the olden days people didn't tend to suffer from persistent xyz health conditions despite the extreme environment—" was it cuz they died? idk, you didn't clarify the statistics and sample selection on that point.

am i nitpicking? this book is probably aimed at a specific audience of middle class usa. nonetheless.

also i'm squinting suspiciously at the invocation of japanese vocabulary re-applied to mean something else in like a 'call to eastern wisdom' kind of way (photo of me wondering if this is racist)

anyway all that said, i'm thinking about Levari's study and the findings of the tendency to fixate on imperfection, dissatisfaction, and threats, as informed by prior experience even when circumstances improve:

As we experience fewer problems, we don’t become more satisfied. We just lower our threshold for what we consider a problem.

which i will agree with on an anecdotal level as something that happens at least some of the time (watching my dad search and destroy every trivial annoyance. lol.) (and there's that whole thing about 'lifestyle creep.')

anyway this is why i give myself fun problems like 'hiking in the rain' so that i can properly enjoy 'hiking not in the rain.' (and also learn to enjoy 'hiking in the rain.')

there is something worthwhile in the message here about appreciating what you do have. like do y'all have drinkable running water? that's pretty fucking cool. that's a remarkable thing. lots of people don't have that. and also putting yourself through challenges on purpose so that you can reframe your own sense of what is difficult and your own confidence.

anyway we'll see if i finish it or not

[deathshallbenomore]

tv show à la the office but it’s 2023 and one (just one) of the characters is a person from the late 1600s who’s there for no apparent reason only to be confronted with the horrors of microsoft excel. oh and they dress Like That and once they challenged the copy machine to a duel because honestly. why not

[silverwhittlingknife]

superboy: the man of tomorrow 1 spoilers

(it's just one panel but below the cut just in case)

memory identification: go!

[sifutoph]

and if i say t.oph is b.akugou k.atsuki coded........

[solvicrafts]

One of these days when I'm in the right mental space for it I really, really want to post about how incredibly isolating it feels to be neuro-divergent in the pagan community and, at the same time, more or less following a near-reconstructionist path despite how extraordinarily difficult it is because my brain just wired differently so I basically have to fight own instincts and inherent nature in order to practice my religion but at the same time I fight entirely of my own accord because it falls in line with my personal principles and--

[cucumber-pictures]

I took the color wheel challenge.

[flowerdante64]

finally finished it after a month yippie

have a template:

hd version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o1PQaQWnunbpXkDTdpcR-hnRWSK2nbJx/view?usp=drivesdk

[cupioriot]

so i was like. hm its been a while since ive practiced anything spiritual, i have a terrible schedule. so bcoz octavian is honest to god the only thing i can think of some days (help me) I decided to try my hand at some modern methods of augury and it actually fucks if you enjoy the interpretation aspect of majick

[mariocki]

Artist, feminist, poet, personal hero - and occasional actor - Pauline Boty makes a characteristically brief appearance in Maigret: Peter the Lett (4.12, BBC, 1963) as Josie, a nightclub hostess

[thetimelordbatgirl]

OC Halloween Challenge 2022 Everything Else. Day Twenty Nine: Wibbly-Wobbly-Timey-Wimey. 

Power Rangers: Greek Warriors if it was set in Ancient Greece time period instead of modern day. 

[samw3000]

to Simplicity

Wanting freedom from the fancy Desire to be a minimalist But simple is complicatedLong is my to-do list Photo by Jilbert Ebrahimi on Unsplash © 2024 Samantha Williams. All Rights Reserved.