What to do when your life is stupidly great:

The problem with striving is that it makes people unnerved by fortune that arrives without commensurate struggle or the narrative arc. Sudden luck insults the myth of meritocracy. And chances are you care way too much about what you deserve and not enough about what you want

What’s the highest aura profession

Not having kids just because they’re annoying or not tolerating them at weddings or on flights because they’re loud shows that the culture isn’t viewing children as fellow equal people but as objects: passion projects, luxury goods, a lifestyle thing like golfing or skiing

One thing to learn from cats is that they enjoy life with the perfect amount of selfishness: they ignore everything that doesn’t concern them and are just lazy enough so that someone more eager does it for them, and they lock in instantly when the thing that matters appear

Tbh what might save dating culture is if parents got more involved: - they really do know you better than you know yourself - they know more about marriage and good partnership - they *genuinely* want the best for you - they can see right through bs of younger folks and that puts everyone on their best behavior The interrogation at the door before prom shouldn’t be the last time you date someone who’s been vetted. When people say “bring back shame” what they’re really diagnosing is the lack of a fear-of-the-Lord in people’s treatment of the opposite sex, they don’t take courtship seriously, they don’t respect the other person. The involvement of parents isn’t to helicopter a relationship but to enrich and guide it with ancestral wisdom, and possibly protect you from yourself

You should do hard things because it transforms you. It makes something out of you.

falling in love is terrible for your career and ambitions

People dismiss dreams as being not mysterious because it’s just background brain activity but like what makes you think THAT isn’t mysterious? The fact that your brain uses your memories, fears, secret desires, trauma, and soft spots to create unique scenarios that reality doesn’t recognize means that your psyche knows something about you that YOU don’t even know, and it shows it to you in symbolic or patterned ways when your consciousness is not in the cockpit, you should really pay more attention to what you’re dreaming about