Sometimes you need a little more fulfillment, the same way you need sunlight and sleep. Going and volunteering for a couple of hours a week will give you all kinds of feel good chemicals and be its own motivation to continue once you start. I enjoy volunteering outdoors because its typically more chill and I’m killing like, three birds with one stone by volunteering outside with physical labor (exercise!).

I've encountered this as: the elephant and the rider. The rider knows where they're going and can attempt to guide to elephant. The elephant can do the traversal. If the rider has no direction, the elephant will just wander. If the elephant doesn't want to do something, there's not much the rider can do. Take care of your elephant so you can be on the same page, but know that you cannot reason with or force it.

I've unfortunately seen this metaphor weaponized for workplace management where employees are viewed as dumb beasts that need the ankusha.

"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor."

Alexis Carrel

Tom Papa: it's like you're your own pet, and some people aren't good at caring for pets

How is this so accurate lol

There's also when you do all that stuff, and it works, and then you go, "Alright, I've found the solution, but now that I figured it out it's boring and I'm going to go back to my bad habits."

Ahhhh fuck this is relatable

I can drink water, that's about all I'm willing to do I'm still girlrotting but hydrated :3

"Some of them want to use you, some of them want to get used by you" doesn't have to be your attitude. The world isn't bad, only humans are.