Quits job and retires early
“You told me to avoid stress…”
Until your meager savings runs out and now the stress level is 100x what it was before
lol y'all have savings?
not for long at this rate
What do you think the pennies in the jar are for?
To punish myself for swearing too much
Hey, copper prices are going up, that's an investment!
Definitely not enough at this rate.
I love all these YouTube videos, health gurus and influencers encouraging me to sleep a full eight hours.
Y'all motherfuckers have never had children, have you?
Or worked hospitality. These fuckers have never done an AFD or a clopen
Love the word "clopen". It's a terrible word and it gets the point across perfectly.
You don't even get to finish "close" before you're already opening. There's no hyphen or breath time in-between.
It's all just mashed together, rushed, and stressful, just like the shift it describes.
Christ. My son has a cough, and he crawled up into our bed last night. Spent hours coughing directly into my ear, slapping me with flailing hands, and crying for milk (which he then rejected after it was offered).
I am in an absolute haze this morning.
That’s rough, buddy.
I mean that's totally on you. Like it's so obvious beforehand that u are not gonna get a lot of sleep once u have children. People nowadays really don't think things through, do they.
The name fits your attitude perfectly :D
Being stressed out by the world is unhealthy. Withdrawing from reality to avoid that stress is also unhealthy. The fuck am I supposed to do move to another planet? In this economy?
"Avoid stress" is code for don't worry about things you have no control over.
Where to get my next meal, is something I don't always have control over. Unfortunately it's also not something I can stop worrying about.
Edit: made it clear that my situation is much better now, but it wasn't always.
Thinking I have no control over things feels defeatist
Y'all have never been to court ordered alcoholics anonymous meetings and it shows.
Reinhold Niebuhr wrote the first known version of the Serenity Prayer, and it's been through a few revisions just by popular word of mouth or even literal Hallmark greeting cards, but the version they say at AA meetings is:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
The basic principle can be decoupled from the religious origins and still be a useful approach to life. Learn not to stress about the things not in your control, while still taking control of the influence you do have.
Gargoyles are water features. So unless you want to be installed at the end of a gutter and vomit water, I recommend becoming a grotesque instead.
Ok, wow, this just made me realize that "gargle" and "gargoyle" share the same "mouth/throat water" origin. Mind blown.
One of my favorite fun facts is that the proper name for a Gothic grotesque that is purely decorative is hunky punk
Don't let your dreams be dreams.
Sadly. No one wants to hire a hermit to live in their garden these days.
Patient: "Uh, there are systemic reasons I can't avoid stress, doc."
Doctor: (Dusts off hands) "Well, my job is done here!"
The only way for me to avoid stress would be suicide and even then there would probably be some cunt in the afterlife like "nah, nah, nah no rest yet, because you are here early you have to work off the remaining years you should have been alive and then we'll talk about interests, oh wait that's kinda like it is now...
Just move to Stardew Valley bro.
She could try not doomscrolling and blasting herself with horrible news and opinions from crazy people on social media for a start
Reminder that every sizable company in the attention economy retains amongst its employees individuals who have the academic and professional background to fine tune their systems to make and keep a vice grip on the attention of it's users/victims, regardless of the negative effects it has on the micro level for an individual victim, or the macro level on society as a whole.
On top of that, most of us only get ~~meaningful~~ substantial social interaction at work, if that.
Just "quitting all social media" is tougher than it sounds because deep down humans want to interact with each other, but we often can't! And aside from algorithms, lots of stuff sucks right now, so that's what people are talking about. And that's before we bring algorithms into the equation.
The Internet used to be this wonderful place to reach out and meet other human beings from anywhere, and make friends, and share, and be connected to those other people without being stuck in 100°F heat and traffic or airlines. It was a digital "third place" for humanity to hang out.
And now the main 'net is an unholy, ravenous corporate homunculus that wears the skin of that third place.
We're still mostly physically isolated from the rest of our species unless it's an unpleasant obligation, but the "people" are harder to find amongst all the shapeshifting shills, ads, propagandists, and most of all, bots.
Lemmy has none of those algorithms, and a lot of the articles and posts bum me the heck out, badly, but I still feel the urge to visit because outside of work and my overworked family and busy friends on wacky schedules, I too, am isolated.
They mean dont do high stress hobbies, like maybe don’t race cars, don’t play competitive sports, stuff like that.
Ah yes, keep doing the things that are causing you massive chronic stress but please stop doing that one fun activity your using to charge your batteries cause your hearthrate might go up from it and we cant have you waste your remaining health on something that is not economically useful.
But I never have done anything like that? That's like saying just quit smoking to someone who's never smoked. The stress is just from being alive.
I mean, with the cost of everything, all Hobbies are high stress.
Foraging is a good, low-stress hobby that costs nothing. You get to be out in nature and score free food. Bonus points if the plant you forage for is invasive - then you’re helping the environment, too!
Same doctors also started to call teeth "cosmetic only" once they realized they could make a shitton of money from the organs people use to eat.
The lighter side of ADHD
