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zorosdimples · 7 months
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stoic man who can’t articulate how much you mean to him, so he has to show you instead
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courtingwonder · 7 months
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Treat Emotions Like Visitors Who Are Just Passing Through
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgment about them.
Epictetus
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0scarwilde · 1 year
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it is okay to still feel hurt, even if you thought you were over it.
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mbtitime · 1 year
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The 16 types as School of Philosophies
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philosophors · 1 month
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“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.”
— Epictetus
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artist-issues · 1 year
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I’m going to say it.
I don’t think How to Train Your Dragon 3 was good.
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Not when you compare it to literally either of the other movies. Certainly not as a conclusion.
I mean, the first movie was about a boy who manages to understand a hostile dragon species and bring peace to two warring factions, which is a parallel for his relationship with his father. The second film was about how sometimes, peace has to be fought for, and Hiccup’s whole identity was in contrast with that—because while his mother ran from conflict and his father leapt at it too eagerly, he had always been the one to stop the fighting. Then he has to learn that the things we love are worth protecting. 
And after he learns that humans and dragons can learn to understand each other and coexist—after he learns that it isn’t enough to run and hide or fight out of fear, but instead you must protect the things you care about—
After those two natural, powerful progressions are clearly worked for in the first two movies—
How to Train Your Dragon 3 comes along and says “‘No actually, sometimes all it takes is one madman whom you defeated with no loss of life to convince you that the things you care about should just crawl into a very pretty hiding hole, because you don’t feel like spending the rest of your life fighting for them.”
And I can say more. Below the break. 
Because I’ve waited a long time to talk about this. Everybody around me was saying that the third HTTYD movie was sooo good, how could I not love it, what was my problem, they’re crying in the theater seats around me, they’re all moved, but nobody can tell me why. What makes HTTYD3 so good, STORY WISE? What makes the fact that Toothless, who is established as “Hiccup’s Other Half” and his character’s support, leaving, a good conclusion?
And it’s not just that my feelings were hurt at the idea of this iconic duo being split up in the finale. 
It just doesn’t make any sense. Because the main thing that the whole series was built around was the adversity Hiccup and Toothless were always going to come up against, because they shouldn’t be friends. The whole first movie is like “dragons and Vikings hate and kill each other, there’s no way to get over this fear, nobody can be around Night Furies without dying,” and Hiccup and Toothless literally fly in the face of that. Then the whole second movie is “dragons either have to be left completely alone to themselves and their ways in the wild apart from man, or they have to be brutally enslaved as war machines under man’s boot” and then Hiccup and Toothless fly in the face of that. They stick together as their own, unique partnership, and it changes the world in HTTYD and in HTTYD2.
And then in the third movie, boom, Toothless suddenly doesn’t belong with Hiccup anymore? Suddenly it’s essential that he live completely separate, alone with “his own kind?” Suddenly it’s too hard and too dangerous to protect this dragon-Viking way of life that the whole first and second movie worked for?
I mean. They even abandon Berk. They fought so hard for Berk throughout three television series and two excellent movies. 
And I get it. The idea is that, they left Berk because Berk is a people, so no matter where they go Berk is still alive, just like no matter where Toothless goes, his friendship with Hiccup is “still alive.” And that’s a fine theme, I guess, except it totally makes the first two movies seem worthless. It makes Hiccup’s mom seem right for abandoning her family and giving up on the idea that humans and dragons could ever live peacefully. According to HTTYD3, Hiccup and Toothless never should have interacted again after he cut Toothless free of the net. Because Toothless should’ve just…gone on to live with his own kind.
Oh except he couldn’t, because Hiccup knocked his tail fin off and Toothless needed Hiccup. Just like Hiccup was weird and innovative in a time of traditional brutish Vikings, and he, in his own way needed Toothless. So they couldn’t live among their own kind without one another. 
And I see that HTTYD3 is trying to say “‘yes, they needed each other, but now they’ve grown up and the only thing left to learn is how to let go and move on.” But you know what, if you were going to tell me that, you shouldn’t have made the driving motivation for these characters to leave one another: “too many bad guys keep inevitably attacking us.”
You also shouldn’t have made the secondary driving motivation: “Toothless likes a pretty girl dragon and he can’t be with her and be with Hiccup because she’s Too Wild.™” Because guess what? The other thing that all of the previous canon content set up was that Hiccup can basically tame and befriend any wild dragon.
There are very few dragons, even in the TV show, that he cannot make friends with and live side-by-side with, and the ones that existed were basically just big, angry killing machines who presented themselves as way more threatening in mannerisms than the Light Fury does in the third movie. The Red Death eats other dragons; the Light Fury warns other dragons of traps. The Skrill tries to lightning-fry every human around it; the Light Fury only ever plasma blasts at humans that surprise her while she’s actively snooping around their camp.
I am willing to buy a story where a dragon needs to be free of his human master if he wants to have a future with his own kind, but you can’t do that if the dragon in the story is Toothless and the master in the story is Hiccup. Because those characters’ relationship was established as the future of their kind. Viking’s way forward was dragons—dragons’ way forward was Vikings. 
And that brings up another bone of contention with me—the first reason for the finale split-up—what made Grimmel so terrifying that it convinced Hiccup to uproot his whole tribe from their ancestral home and eventually give up on fighting for his dragon/Viking way of life, and Toothless himself? Was it that Grimmel was a better strategist than Hiccup? Because Grimmel lost and died, so there’s no reason for that to remain the reason. Was it because Viggo had a whole army of people that were slapped together to hastily represent “the rest of the world” and a bunch of dragons—again, DRAGONS, Hiccup’s specialty—to attack them with? Because again, all of them lost. And Berk sacrificed nothing in the process, unless you count, like…stress.
And DON’T give me any crap about the epilogue. Don’t tell me “‘Oh, OP, you totally ignored the part at the end where Toothless and Hiccup’s new families visit each other, they’re not gone forever, they’re just Friends From Afar, living at peace, protecting the peace by staying apart.”
That is 1) a terrible cowardly step back from any emotional impact that the big goodbye and sense of sacrifice that living apart from each other should have given the audience, and 2) still doesn’t negate the fact that Hiccup and Toothless WERE fighting for their way of life, which was living together, since movie 1, and the fact is whether they visit each other or not they still don’t get to have that anymore. For no good reason. I could say more. I could talk about how silly I think a lot of the Light Fury plot is, how poorly set-up the Hidden World was as a conclusion piece, blah blah blah. But instead, I’ll just leave this quote from the end of How to Train Your Dragon 2, and you tell me how the logical conclusion to this quote was “let’s abandon our home and stuff our dragons in a hiding-hole because the enemies and armies that have never once actually defeated us are just too much hassle to keep fighting with.”
“This is Berk. A bit trampled and busted and covered in ice, but it's home. It's our home. Those who attacked us, are relentless, and crazy. But those who stopped them, oh, even more so! We may be small in numbers, but we stand for something bigger than anything the world can pin against us. We are the voice of peace, and bit by bit, we will change this world. You see, we have something they don't. Oh, sure, they have armies, and they have armadas. But we... we have... OUR DRAGONS!"
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tsaikonautz · 1 year
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i just-
idk look at this guy i guess wip
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wrestlingisbest · 23 days
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'The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, because an artful life requires being prepared to meet and withstand sudden and unexpected attacks.'
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389 · 7 months
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Marcus Porcius Cato (the Younger)
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kaizen128 · 7 months
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"They get bored in their childhood and hurry to grow up but then they miss their childhood They lose their health to earn money but they pay money to regain their health Worried about tomorrow, they forget about today In the end, they live neither today nor tomorrow They live like as if they'll never die but they die as if they'd never lived" -Plato
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thecalminside · 1 year
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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
-Carl Jung
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Marcus Aurelius
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yasirmukhtar · 2 months
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Cobaan
Satu tahun ke belakang, saya lagi dapet banyak cobaan yang lebih nonjok dari yang pernah dialami sebelumnya.
Secara default, saya memikirkan betapa banyak kerugian materiel yang saya alami.
Teorinya saya ngerti. Dunia itu di tangan, jangan di hati. Tapi tetep aja saya ngerasa rugi ketika inget opportunity loss yang terjadi.
Saya punya banyak impian dan wishlist. Pengen bayarin istri ikut ini itu, pengen beli barang-barang tertentu yang udah lama ditahan-tahan, atau minimal pengen investasi ke suatu hal. Semua itu saya pertimbangkan dengan hati-hati supaya setiap materi yang dialokasikan tepat guna dan bermanfaat.
Tiba-tiba saya harus kehilangan kesempatan-kesempatan itu begitu aja, poofff, karena cobaan-cobaan ini.
Nyesek banget. Saya butuh waktu lama untuk memproses semua ini. Tapi ini jadi momen buat saya untuk restart dan refresh lagi hubungan saya dengan materi.
Saya memaknainya seperti Allah sedang "mengambil" perhatian saya supaya saya inget lagi tentang apa yang esensial dalam hidup.
Selain itu, saya juga jadi introspeksi, mungkin saya secara ga sadar udah menumpuk dosa yang sangat banyak.
Maka, meski ga mudah, saya berusaha ikhlas atas takdir yang saya jalani dengan meresapi empat gagasan ini:
I've been so lucky, so comfortable, in a very long time compared to many people. Saya cuma baru sekarang aja dapet cobaannya. Banyak orang lain yang dapet cobaan yang berat lebih dulu. It's just a matter of time. Semua orang akan dapet giliran untuk dapet cobaan karena dunia ini emang tempatnya kepahitan dan kesusahan.
Saya tidak kehilangan apa-apa karena pada dasarnya saya ngga punya apa-apa. Semua yang saya miliki hanya dilewatkan oleh Allah kepada saya, bukan untuk disimpan selamanya. Nanti ada tempatnya saya diberi hal-hal yang bisa saya simpan selamanya, tapi bukan di sini.
Saya ga jadi bahagia dengan menolak tadir saya. Yang ada saya malah tambah miserable. Sementara takdirnya tidak bisa saya hindari juga. Jadi yang lebih baik adalah terima dengan ikhlas lalu move on.
Ada beberapa hadits yang intisarinya menyebutkan bahwa jika Allah menghendaki kebaikan bagi seorang hamba, maka hamba itu Allah beri musibah sebagai hukuman yang disegerakan di dunia (supaya di akhirat dosa-dosanya lebih ringan atau sudah bersih). Maka saya ikhlas dengan ujian dunia yang tidak seberapa kalau dibandingkan dengan hukuman di akhirat. (Source)
Wallahu'alam.
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epicforwards · 9 months
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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius
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