Dry_Monk

@Dry_Monk@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being poor is expensive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The original, excellent passage:

  The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

  Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

  But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  5 minutes of meditation. It won’t solve the anxiety, but it will insert just enough perspective and space to help you recognize a couple things:

  • you are not your anxiety, it’s more like weather that you’re experiencing.
  • the things that you’re worried about may be real, but your experience of them is warped by the anxiety.

  My therapist gave me a really helpful metaphor. Anxiety is kind of like putting your hand right in front of your face. It blocks everything else out. It’s all you can see. It’s all you can experience. While this isn’t the desired state, you also can’t get rid of your hand without losing a real part of yourself. So instead, what if you focus on inserting space. Move your hand further from your face, and it becomes an element of the environment. It’s a thing you can observe. It’s still real, and it’s still there, but it’s now more in perspective.

  That’s what meditation, even 5 minutes, can do. It pushes your anxiety into perspective. It won’t get rid of it, but it will help you see it as an element rather than your entire experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As an American white dude traveling full time, I haven’t really gotten any of this yet personally. I have sat next to some really loud Americans and felt irritated at them, but the same goes for the British lady who walked into a cafe I was in and loudly insisted they make her a sandwich that wasn’t on the menu.

  Most people are kind and curious. Those who aren’t, regardless of nationality, are the ones who irritate the locals.

  Of course, the world is big and I obviously haven’t been everywhere. In each place I have been to, though, learning a few words and being extra polite goes a long way. Locals welcome you and return the curiosity and respect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wealth Taxes Are Pointless While Tax Havens Exist⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  :fiddles with phone: Where’s the dang über-upvote button on this thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you eat too much oats and sleep⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is perfect. Thank you for sharing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Birds of peace ⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This definitely reads like it’s written by the pelican, addressing someone with a baby

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨413524 Gang, rise up!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the correct order. 5-to-2 sets the width of the star, which is important when writing multiple identical stars next to each other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A useful map for travelers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For a second I read that as America, and I thought, eh, pretty close.