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Worst choice of my life was being born with ADHD.
Really should have thought that one through better, but it seemed funny at the time to play on hard mode and strafe-jump through the tutorial.Very little of your life is actually in your control
Imagine that you’re starting now.
The universe was created as-is, ex nihilo, 5 minutes ago.
What can you do to make your life better?
Not a lot. Some things, but not a lot.
I believe you have to think a little more long term before submitting to the idea that “I can’t change anything”.
Can I change things in the next 1 hour? If you’re broke now, probably yes you will still be broke after 1 hour.
But that’s not how life works. We go to schools and develop ourselves in other ways, to have a better life 10 or 20 years later.
I accept this as true for billions of people. How can those in destitute poverty do anything but survive?
But, say, upper-middle class westerners? Add in the most positive family dynamics and you seem to have an immense amount of free agency.
Curious if you agree or not :)
I would say there are limits to what one can easily achieve from their starting point in life, but your statement is so fatalistic that anyone who believes it might aswell stop trying and just give up on life.
Smarter every day recently had a talk with NASA engineers where he said something that resonated with me.
"Its often discussed that if you could go back in time, you could change one thing, and observe a huge change in the following events.
But we never consider that we have that same power right now, today. Actions now can influence a wide variety of future outcomes."
With some self reflection you can be the time traveler of scifi.
Some things are out of our control, but many are not, and simple changes, say, about our personal wellness or how we treat others can have big ramifications.
Why doesn’t anybody stop me? This isn’t my fault.
Stop it!
…no?
Well I tried.
Well did you ask?
Before anyone can stop you, you first have to tell them what they should stop you from.
And the choices of others.
I thought the title said everything happened for a raccoon. I was very disappointed when I read the meme.
Gta 6 type image
Worst deciding of my life was misplacing about a quart of blood. My blood.
At least it was only a quart, not a gallon.
Yeah, but I’m never gonna get to be in charge of the mcfurly machine again
Most relevant post I’ve read all day
I don’t know. I’ve been digging into dense scientific work on the subject of consciousness. From what I’ve seen, free will as a concept is pretty much an illusion we evolved to feel.
Truth
Don’t worry guys, you can always fuck up even more.
