Mad that @ODELL doesnt even post anymore 🫪 just reposts.

This is a metaphor, right?

Strawberry season? Or GMO? This is shop bought. Fucking mahoosive. and jahoosy.

956903 -- Rise And Shine It's comforting to think that even two thousand years ago the emperor of Rome (who was reportedly a bit of an insomniac) was giving himself a pep talk in order to summon up the willpower to throw the blankets off each morning and get out of bed. From the time we're sent off to school until we retire, we're faced with that same struggle. It'd be nicer to shut our eyes and hit that snooze button a few more times. But we can't. Because we have a job to do. Not only do we have our calling that we have dedicated ourselves to, but we have a larger cause that the Stoics speak about: the greater good. We cannot be our service to ourselves, to other people, or to the world unless we get up and get working--the earlier the better. "On those mornings you struggle with getting up, keep this thought in mind--I am awakening to the work of a human being. Why then am I annoyed that I am going to do what I am made for, the very things for which I put into this world? Or was I made for this, to snuggle under the covers and keep warm? It's so pleasurable. Where you then made for pleasure? In short, to be coddled or to exert yourself?" -- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 5.1 #203tds

956454 -- Turn Have To Into Get To A long To-Do list seems intimidating and burdensome--all these things we have to do in the course of a day or a week. But a Get To Do list sounds like a privilege--all the things we're excited about the opportunity to experience. This isn't just semantic playing. It is a central facet of the philosopher's world view. Today, don't try to impose your will on the world. Instead see yourself as fortunate to receive and respond to the will in the world. Stuck in traffic? A few wonderful minutes to relax and sit. Your car broke down after idling for so long? Ah, what a nice nudge to take a long walk the rest of the way. A swerving car nearly hit you as you were walking and soaked head to toe with rain? What a reminder about how precarious our existence is and how silly it is to get upset about something as trivial as being late or having trouble with your commute! Kidding aside, it might not seem like it makes a difference to see life as something you have to do versus get to do, but there is. A huge, magnificent difference. "The task of a philosopher: we should bring our will into harmony and whatever happens, so that nothing happens against our will and nothing that we wish for fails to happen." -- Epictetus, Discourses, 2.14.7 #p200tds

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955295 -- The Wise Don't Have Problems Hesiod, the poet, said that "the best treasure is a sparing tongue." Robert Greene considers it a law of power: Always Say Less Than Necessary. We talk because we think it's helping, whereas in reality it's making things hard for us. If our spouse is venting, we want to tell them what they should do. In fact, all they actually want us to do is hear them. In other situations, the world is trying to give us feedback or input, but we try to talk ourselves out of the problem--only to make it worse. So today, will you be part of the problem or part of the solution? Will you hear the wisdom of the world or drown it out with noise? "This is why we say that nothing happens to the wise person contrary to their expectations" -- Seneca, On Tranquillity of Mind, 13.3b

Light blue propaganda would have you believe the UK regrets leaving the EU 10 years on. Although, an interactive poll below the graph shows 73% of 1,269 of us that voted still believe it was the right call.

954666 - page 187 - Take A Walk 'In a notoriously loud city like Rome, it was impossible to get much peace and quiet. The noises of wagons, the shouting of vendors, the hammering of a blacksmith--all filled the streets with piercing violence (to say nothing of the putrid smells of a city with poor sewage and sanitation). So philosophers went on a lot of walks--to get where they needed to go, to clear their heads, to get fresh air. Throughout the ages, philosophers, writers, poets, and thinkers have found that walking offers an additional benefit--time and space for better work. As Nietzsche would later say: "It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth." Today, make sure you take a walk. And in future, when you get stressed or overwhelmed, take a walk. When you have a tough problem to solve or a decision to make, take a walk. When you want to be creative, take a walk. When you need to get some air, take a walk. When you have a phone call to make, take a walk. When you need some exercise, take a walk. When you have a meeting or a friend over, take a walk together. Nourish yourself and your mind and solve your problems along the way. "We should take wandering outdoor walks, so that the mind might be nourished and refreshed by the open air and deep breathing." -- Seneca, On Tranquillity of Mind, 17.8'