“It is rather more noble to help people purely out of concern for their suffering than it is to help them because you think the Creator of the Universe wants you to do it, or will reward you for doing it, or will punish you for not doing it. The problem with this linkage between religion and morality is that it gives people bad reasons to help other human beings when good reasons are available.”
— Sam Harris
(via thecalminside)
I’m told I’m calm under stress.
This morning I awoke to bile in my throat that I nearly spit out.
Unfortunately, it’s work stuff outside of my control.
Hopefully next week will run more smoothly.
It’s the knowledge of self understanding of the things around me
That becomes the wisdom that I need
Living this life to the best of my ability
Channelling energy to my thoughts into your symmetryNujabes - Feather (Modal soul - 2005)
Sometimes you need to sleep, sleep a lot. Not to escape, but to rest your soul from your feelings. Because everything, absolutely everything devours you. Completely.
—Brain
Today wasn’t my morning. So when I went to work this morning and a coworker asked me how I was, I said I was ready to fight. And my coworker made me smile by asking me who we’re fighting and that she was ready to go. I appreciated that.
Also last night I had a dinner with the people I used to work with 2-3 years ago. We were an office who were let go post pandemic due to the company needing to downsize.
We try to have a dinner together at least once a year. A dog walker (while she works through school), a title reviewer for real estate, an attorney in real estate, one in Germany (we tried to video call him but dates got mixed up so i dont know what he’s up to), and myself in aviation claims and best of all we’re all very varying ages. I think its amazing that we can still so this. It’s not the deepest connection but it’s a very meaningful one. These are people who have brought each other up, they’ve fought for me as well when I was struggling at work.
I guess my point is (since I went on a tangent), the small things are nice.
The current news has been so tiring, it’s exhausting, depressing, and heartbreaking. The small things help keep me sane.
— Juansen Dizon









