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Bo7a@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

That is a basic survival worry. I tend to believe that humans faced with real survival issues are less negatively impacted than those who have material worries.

My stress about work is killing me.

My stress about not freezing to death leads me to do things like chopping wood, lighting fires, and maintaining my chimney. Which are all good things.

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starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
Chop wood, carry water.

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SendPrudes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
My wife doesn’t love multi day backpacking. But she loves the glimpse of how I am and how we are - during that time.

Our priorities - Stay warm, stay dry, fetch and purify water, hike the right distances to get out with food in hand, packing and unpacking our gear, avoid dangerous wildlife, cook, sleep.

When every day that’s your goal state it’s super simple - stress is actually just a response to things that might kill you again. And not 20 steps away from it. “I might perform poorly, which may cost me my job, which could be long term, and financially we won’t recover, and then we might lose the house or starve”. Up against “I need water and dry clothes”.

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melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I think the problem is there’s agency you can take over that stuff, and it’s not deferring to a blatantly malevolent system designed to crush you into dust and extract the value for things like sleeping inside and getting the ever diminishing treats that make you not kill yourself while you’re doing that.

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HappinessPill@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Indeed, the majority of us aren’t made to worry about arbitrary problems that are beyond our control constantly more than trivial and survival related problems.

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