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Cortisol and insult
Cortisol, the stress hormone. I’m not a doctor, and I’m not one of those nitwits that has “done my own research” on the internet. There must be a reason to believe something, some science behind it. Luckily there is a lot of good evidence that how you feel psychologically will contribute chemically to how you Continue reading
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Cultivate happiness
Toll can write of how we need to be more settled, your therapist can tell you that you’re being destructive, you can realise this yourself, you can buy any number of books on how to change your life, drugs may give you temporary relief, the legal ones can dull your senses, so can alcohol, you Continue reading
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Leaning in too far
Quite a few years ago I had a step son, he’d be an adult now of about 26. Maybe he has a family of his own and he’s as happy as can be, don’t know, I don’t often think about him. The point is I once had a son, so I kind of know, think Continue reading
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Dead horse
Native Americans have a saying that means something akin to “when a horse is dead it’s time to dismount”. Einstein repeated the same sort of sentiment when he suggested that a sign of stupidity, real stupidity, was to repeat what has many times not worked, what in fact has never worked, yet to hope for Continue reading
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Do what you can
My partner Em worries about things she cannot change, at least not by her small participation in them. Problems with humanity, problems that can be solved but never are, mainly because nobody with the power to is willing to take the steps, or exert the influence, that could make a difference. I often think about Continue reading
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Slow changes
I have been thinking about a career change, not immediately, but over a period starting soon, I would like to learn and do something else. I’m a computer technician at the moment, but that is just what I do, it is not what I am. I face an uphill battle to continue to do what Continue reading
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The paradox of good intentions
I used to be a vegetarian, a choice I made in my youth. Let’s first dispel the myth that that lifestyle is bad for you, I was a professional full time soldier when I did not eat meat at all, I was not slow or weak, nor was I deficient of muscle mass, and I Continue reading
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No bad hugs
I’m not a man given to outward expressions of sentiment toward my fellows normally, though I am someone that recognises how friendships make our lives worthwhile. For me it’s the point of, the meaning in, life itself. Many people draw false meaning, attach themselves to a purpose of their existence whereby they equate the accumulation Continue reading
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Our outrageous fortune
The worst person is they that would exploit, make profit from, and wish praise for dealing with, the miseries you and I cannot conquer alone. No evil exists more than that which wishes your sickness to enable it’s remedy, and no person is so depraved that their validation is not gained without the existence of Continue reading
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Watching it crumble
I had an interesting conversation with my fiancés dad recently, he was saying something about a news spot that was on TV at the time. I, with my usual blunt instrument of a perspective, wished to get into it further. I often do, because what interests me is not the phenomenon, but what enables it. Continue reading
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