- Stop sitting in the shit, shouted a voice-over commercial while watching a video on attracting money properly, with affirmations and running in the woods
- I'm ashamed, I said quietly and continued eating my Nutella sandwich in my T-shirt, which I hadn't washed in a month, because I had no money for a washing machine, and I had no desire to wash it by hand, like a cavewoman.
A Twitter poll showed that most men would not want to know that their girlfriend had been sexually abused, but would also act more gently and carefully with such a girl after the news. There was no survey on wanting to know about the sexual abuse your boyfriend had experienced. Violence has no gender, no gradation. Frieda is Frieda. A dog is Dog.
- The Barnum effect, said the professor, throwing the results of the positive thinking test out the car window
Imagine you want a fish and the person who has the fish is willing to give it to you, but then a nerd comes along and convinces him not to give you the fish, but to teach you how to fish. Oh, shit. The wisdom is that if you give a man a fish, he'll only be fed for a day, and if you teach him to fish, then here's a career, new opportunities, and financial stability to buy as much fish as your soul desires. But what if you're a born artist? We subscribe to the theory of complexity, even if we don't want to. The world is complicated, relationships are always compromised, happiness cannot be flaunted, and big money cannot be earned easily. But it's easy to fall into a depression and overthink everything you've done wrong in the past and how many new scenarios about how to do wrong in the future you still have to come up with. As Osho said, happiness is inside and you can't find it outside, and would he say that if he had to ride the subway every morning in crowds and sweaty, drunken, crazy people for an hour and then still work an unloving job, in the process thinking about how to make money for something you already spent money on?
- Men shouldn't make laws about women's bodies, the main tweet of the day hung in the trends of all social media from a girl who was ashamed today that she's happy while there are people in the world who are starving
Sexuality is the love of your life. Do you want yourself? Business developer and strip dancer. You can not do one thing, you can go crazy. You have to mix it up. Career or family? Singer or actress? You have to make up your mind, honey, or you won't succeed there or thereabouts. Polina proved otherwise. A woman who knows how to make any business a success knows how to drive the audience crazy by pretending to be a carefree slut. Or maybe she's not playing? When the investors have decided to merge and the subordinates have descended into ritualistic retardation, you can just go off to a dance or an orgy where you get fucked by fifteen people and stress, what's stress? Only the victim wants to get rid of all the problems at once so he can rest back on his down beds and munch on grapes. We can't completely get rid of or run away from shame, pain, disappointment, and trauma, but we can accept it, live it properly, and let it go because we don't need it anymore. The situation changes when one asks not for what? but for what? You don't have to look for yourself, you can create yourself, create yourself the way you want to be, with one label or twelve. Like Pauline. Like a cat with nine lives. Why live only one?
- Am I a grand event or do I still need social validation? Gerta asked and opened champagne on her teacher's grave
The tragic loss of a glamorous magazine. In digital times, the print magazine has become just an aesthetic, a set of pretty photos of morning coffee or matches. Print books are vibe. We don't need advice from magazines anymore when we have the internet and podcasts. We still need aesthetics, like 100 perks to a beautiful Instagram post. Social validation, through popularity. Is the break with the era like the breakup of two people who made plans for the future together, and the subject doesn't even communicate? Evolution and revolution, holding hands change the picture around them, only the horoscopes of the day remain unchanged. Believe in miracles and don't let yourself be deceived.
- We haven't birthed so many new people for the cultural revolution, finished her report on the formation of an epicenter of political pilgrimage through the symbolic appropriation of space
If you are in the minority - and even in the singular - it does not mean that you are insane. There is truth and there is untruth, and if you hold to the truth, even if in spite of the world, you are not mad. (1984, Orwell)