• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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    27 days ago

    If you’re not a billionaire or a republican you’re doing an awesome job by just not being a complete dick. Today might be a tough day, but look in the mirror, force a little smile, and tell yourself, damn, at least I didn’t end up a fucking billionaire.

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
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    27 days ago

    I’m not just some random dude though. I’m the guy who fixed that pipe that one time. That was pretty remarkable.

  • selfdefense420@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    we really do inflate our sense of importance. so many of the most important parts of a healthy mind are wrapped in nihilism.

      • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        27 days ago

        What’s your favorite app for that? Anyone got recommendations? Something to help me track my progress and remind me to properly Zen like the Zen pros, but also maybe quietly compare my Zen to those around me, starting with my friends & loved ones?

        I would be so Zen if I could only get some daily pointers on optimizing my ordinary, unremarkable, totally un-unique experience of reality toward the epitome of Zen©.

        • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
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          27 days ago

          There’s this paid app called Zenolingo. It’s a simple one time fee and of course there’s the Zen+ subscription you’ll also want because you accrue ZenPoints much faster. They recently introduced ads but you also get ZenPoints from watching them, which imo is pretty fair.

          You don’t have to pay anything on top of that, but if you’re running out on DailyZen then by buying ZenCredits you can top up your ZenAccount

  • forrgott@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    27 days ago

    I’m honestly glad I’m just some random jackass. Cause then I can let the small pleasures and joys in my life be meaningful. Not sure if I’m wording that very well, but yeah

  • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    I’m just some random lady, but I do try to contribute to making the world better. It’s hard though, cause there’s so many people actively giving their all, their effort and their resources, to make it worse.

    • Papanca@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      27 days ago

      Even a kind smile or sincerely wishing someone a good day can be enough. You can perhaps do more, but even this can be a support for people, something to look forward to on difficult days

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      I do try to contribute to making the world better.

      I do this too, but I’ve found that the far more accessible and long reaching positive impacts are actions of little nudges from a slight negative state to a slight positive one. The mental visual I use is like a meteor is on a collision course with Earth, if you change its path ever so slightly when its far far away from Earth, you’ll avoid the catastrophe. The amount of effort and energy is tiny at that point, but the benefit is immeasurably large.

      So what do these nudges look like? It could be as little as thanking someone for something they don’t expect to get thanked for. It could be being a customer and calling a manager over to compliment a worker’s efforts and make sure they get recognized. It could be stopping on the side of the road when someone is having car trouble. It could be seeing someone left some personal belonging when they left, and call out to them or chase after them to let them know, or even just turning in a valuable item to lost and found fully intact. Sometimes its just letting someone know that they’ve been heard or that they’re not alone, or that you appreciate that they exist in this world. None of these things require superpowers or immeasurable wealth. Its little nudges you can push the universe back toward the positive against all the negative going on today.

      • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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        27 days ago

        I’ve done good work to help queer and trans youth gain acceptance and defense, but my budget is one comma, sometimes not even that much, compared with the four commas of the machines running the federal government, cackling about our suffering, while they post pictures of alligators wearing hats.

  • Balaquina@lemmy.caEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Well, I’m just speaking for myself here, but I never had those expectations of myself. OTHER PEOPLE had those expectations of me. It wasn’t until I hit middle age, and said “fuck those assholes” that I truly started being happy.