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kiwilapple t1_izix3id wrote

The second wave of diarrhea

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Hirotrum t1_izixiyc wrote

We have no fucking clue about that

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yousa_queenie t1_iziz9pa wrote

climate change? inflation? war? water shortage?

which one?

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TheChosenOne25 t1_izj0vlf wrote

Is the person who made this part of the WEF?

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frupp110 t1_izj2d9b wrote

Unless you are a roll of toilet paper

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fuckaliscious t1_izj32oe wrote

Feels like the signs in "They Live" from 1988.

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drewbles82 t1_izj5ewh wrote

A warm home, food on the table, money to actually spend and have a life...yeah right.

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_Pretzel t1_izj70la wrote

Sub's slowly becoming wishy washy positivity

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FoxFourTwo t1_izj712e wrote

Pre-covid vs post-covid would like to have a word...

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lifth3avy84 t1_izj8b18 wrote

And anything is better than this photo edit

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Ok-Radish6641 t1_izjc1ma wrote

Freedom to choose/visualize this next chapter in my life .

I don’t have to stay stuck in a loveless marriage anymore and that I don’t want to live how he lives and want what he wants and that’s ok. He fucked a call girl without a cape, so 🙄 I’m going to focus on myself now and observe how my dgtrs navigate their early adult lives!

I can move to the mountains which I has always been my dream and I can find out who I am as a woman, not a wife, mom, nurse, the domestic engineer of 3 other people has been lifted since the kids are going to be living their own lives! The marriage is ending, but we will take care of our girls and my career path is opening up due up a recent masters degree in public health nursing.

I’m excited for what is to come! I’m excited because I don’t know! However, I do know that fucking call girls

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ccdan t1_izjddbm wrote

Hopefully so! Without hope we're lost!

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stevengreen11 t1_izjddcm wrote

You honestly should just be focusing on the moment you're in. Right now.

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Bazzatron t1_izjdo8v wrote

Replying to Crazy95jack (#893,223)

I'm going to go out on a limb and broaden this to most people.

The only ones looking forward are the ones that stand to profit from the coming storm.

Even if you just have a job, the coming shift will be just as much fun as the last.

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kyleli t1_izjf2iu wrote

Tell that to death row inmates.

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K-Dave t1_izjfw6v wrote

Maybe. I guess I'd rather know what really the deal is, since everyone has their own interpreation (and you barely find any modern art, where those fears are not expressed). Instead of processing all of that, the most motivating thing would probably reducing all of that to whatever shit we're really dealing with and then workikg exactly on that. No more speculating, no "new times, new world" metaphors. As good as the intention might be, there still this gut feeling that it's just a little piece of what should be talked about.

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siler7 t1_izjfx39 wrote

STOP UPVOTING THIS USELESS CRAP.

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ComeFromTheWater t1_izjg74q wrote

Replying to _Pretzel (#893,161)

No this sub is full of miserable people who come into the comments and shit on any positive message posted.

The sub called Get Motivated. Why are you and everyone else here then?

The unpopular opinion is that we can’t control what happens to us, but we can control our reactions. All I see in here are a bunch of people with shitty attitudes, and a shitty attitude is no one’s fault but your own.

I get it, life can suck. Many have been unjustly traumatized, abused, and neglected. I certainly have. But no matter how bad things are, you can turn your life around. It just takes an investment in yourself that must be nurtured consistently. Every single day try to get just a little bit better at something. Then one day you’ll wake up and realize you’re good at it. But it can take YEARS. The good news is that it’s almost never too late.

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dewag t1_izjh7ub wrote

Replying to Hirotrum (#892,761)

Right!? Seems like whoever wrote that works from home now and hasn't been outside in a while.

The forecast is looking pretty bleak. 👍

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RanchPoptarts t1_izjha0u wrote

I'm gonna make it happen, these things don't just fall in your lap. Small steps at a time, I will get where I need to be

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universalrifle t1_izjhgtg wrote

Time is cyclical so we have already experienced technology ot just did not last as long as the planets. We should really be returning our phones and getting back to nature. Gravity wins

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nagelbitarn t1_izjih5r wrote

This is obviously false, or at least the premise is idiotic. If you want to tell someone who is struggling that it will get better because what is coming is (always) better than what is gone, then how did the person end up miserable in the first place?

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DefilerDan t1_izjirfq wrote

If I could give this multiple down votes, I would. What the serious fuck.

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medi3val11111 t1_izjj082 wrote

Interesting that people seem to disagree with this, yet mostly vote to change the system that made things great in the past.

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n0ahhhhh t1_izjj0f8 wrote

My mom died a few months ago. A lifetime without her does not seen better at all.

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SubMikeD t1_izjjfgz wrote

How the fuck is a platitude this empty supposed to motivate me?

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[deleted] t1_izjlsys wrote

Yes, my suicide will be better than my life I’m living now.

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Kuroude7 t1_izjn1w1 wrote

Yeah, I take issue with this given my brother passed away last year at 37.

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PlayHumankind t1_izjoziw wrote

Says who? I'm keeping the faith, praying, eating right, exercising, taking medicine

I guess the hardest part about faith is looking past the current circumstances and actually believing the best is yet to come. It's possible, but trying to convince my mind that despite all the sh&* things are not only going to get better but be much better than before.

Everyday I wake up & have to tell myself multiple times over and over that everything's going to be ok, but just saying it or even reading it doesn't help always. Somehow you have to believe it beyond a shadow of a doubt because the slightest doubt will derail all the positive self talk in the world.

😮‍💨 Anyway..

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Madg5 t1_izjpou3 wrote

I tried to teach my brother this when the count to 10 and take deep breaths method didn't work. My method worked for 3 days, then when my mother heard what I did she said I was overruling her parenting, YES IM OVERRULING IT, YOUR CHILD TOLD YOU IT WASN'T WORKING AND YOU PROVIDED NO ALTERNATIVE. THEN YOU DISCIPLINE THEM WITH A BELT WHEN THEY MISBEHAVE, AND WONDER WHY THEY HATE YOU GROWING UP.

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Ansatsushi t1_izjqb5w wrote

The moment of peace and quiet you had to yourself before a car comes running through the wall of a library.

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CptGigglez t1_izjt1wc wrote

Yay 35 more years of work or an early death

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Madjack66 t1_izjt2k0 wrote

I'm sure Michael J. Fox appreciates this.

/s

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Adept-Crab3951 t1_izjw5m9 wrote

You're healthy now, but cancer may be coming later!

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Skrendie t1_izjw61h wrote

Which according to buddhism is actually one of the causes of suffering.

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jnemesh t1_izjzadv wrote

Yeah, no. We can HOPE this is the case, but we really don't know. We could be at war with China at any time now. We could have something happen with Russia. We could have some unforeseen pandemic emerge. We could have a natural disaster.

Point being, while it IS a nice thought to think the future will be better than the past, this is FAR from guaranteed, and there's another saying, "The past is prologue." Or, "Don't count your chickens before they hatch"!

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Therealbluelychee t1_izjztvj wrote

Not if you live under a conservative government (any country).

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FerrickAsur4 t1_izjzukr wrote

I lost an uncle who I was very close with, and then I lost my grandfather, and then I lost my dog who I still dearly miss till today, and all of this happened in the same year so this statement can go fuck itself

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Tsu-Doh-Nihm t1_izk4i5w wrote

A lot of people want a socialist dystopia where they will eat bugs, and they might get it.

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Spacecommander5 t1_izk544u wrote

This is just toxic positivity. It’s not motivating anyone to do anything.

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Kodd-100th t1_izk56po wrote

Replying to siler7 (#893,520)

Well, how about looking at it this way. We usually tend to think about the past, what we lost, mistakes we made, things we aren't proud of, etc., and this quote rather suggests that focusing and thinking about the future is better than keep presenting the past, and things would definitely get better if you worked for it.

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Bazzatron t1_izk57wj wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#894,128)

By shift I mean a shift at work. I was going to say "9 to 5", but remembered that tomorrow is Saturday, so the 9 to 5 crowd literally are better tomorrow 😅

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DamMofoUsername t1_izk5hwi wrote

I don’t know if the women is coming or going? Can anyone clarify?

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Talonsminty t1_izk6mnb wrote

Ah, spoken like someone living without joint pain.

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[deleted] t1_izk73ui wrote

Replying to Hirotrum (#892,761)

QoL globally consistently improves over time, so yeah we kinda have a clue. Bad shit might happen in your life, those are singular events, things on the whole will inevitably improve

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Cyber_Druid t1_izk75bx wrote

What is this, an ad for gentrification?

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[deleted] t1_izk7c9l wrote

Why do people follow this subreddit and then shit on all legitimate motivation posts? Y’all some sad ass mfs. Every year the world is more free, more fair, and more fun globally

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madambolam t1_izk7lk5 wrote

In my country they say what is coming probably will be worse than what is gone. But I liked this one more

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Crazy95jack t1_izk8qy3 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#894,645)

Cant wait for my body to get more aches and pains while global problems that will affect the rest of my life continues to worsen. If life is so beautiful why are 600 million people without access to safe clean water globally. Why are Ukrainians being executed in their homes. Why does 0.1% of Americans have more than the bottom 90% of Americans. Ignorance is bliss.

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sonderlulz t1_izkah2w wrote

Replying to xXZer0c0oLXx (#892,688)

No, think about it.

As a whole, societies and their citizens are doing better than ever before.

Poverty and starvation levels are lower than all of history.

Many people have access to healthcare to varying degrees.

Internet access to knowledge is spreading globally.

Overall, this and the future are the best times for humans to be alive, for now.

Will it remain that way? Who knows, but for now: it's better.

Besides, those youngest people always joke about how death is best..... and nobody makes it out of here alive.

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Stallings2k t1_izkcqv6 wrote

Someone better than The Beatles is coming?

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[deleted] t1_izkd0qp wrote

Replying to Crazy95jack (#894,690)

Keep crying about things you couldn’t help even if you dedicated your life to helping them, that’s a miserable existence. More and more people are pulled out of poverty, given clean drinking water, given access to proper nutrition, and given access to proper education every year, really easy to look at all the global negatives in the world but things have only gotten better and will continue to get better, that is a fact, not an opinion

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Crazy95jack t1_izke22l wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#894,888)

Helping other is the most satisfying existence anyone could ever experience. Since covid started more people have been dragged back down into poverty, unable to heat their homes without going hungry. Huge numbers of workers striking due to pay and working conditions. All it takes is the likes of Putin releasing nuclear weapons and life for us and our children's children would be miserable. You don't speak fact but words of blind hope. Nothing in the future is guaranteed, thats a fact.

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lupatot t1_izkeqe7 wrote

So when I eat cake, the shit will taste better right? Is this a quote by the same people that coined the phrase money doesn't buy happiness? Gtfo

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[deleted] t1_izkeqfy wrote

Replying to Crazy95jack (#894,933)

And how many people have you helped? I’m willing to guess none, the people that complain the most do the least. I donate to charities frequently and work in my community’s local soup kitchen and I see the effects of my work. So keep being miserable, I’d rather think like me than you any day

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Trips-Over-Tail t1_izkezra wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#893,690)

The whole issue it that it won't be falling from the sky in the manner we're used to. Plenty of places will dry up entirely, as California already is. Many places with an abundance of it will be flooding regularly. Agriculture will be tapping everything that it can. If you really are in a place that will remain stable and maintain consistent access to untainted water, we'll, how many people can your well serve? Because in that case you are where the refugees in your own country will be headed.

Furthermore, should things get that serious... The idea that you legally own the water that falls or otherwise gathers on your property, or that you will even remain the sole legal owner of such valuable land, is one that can be changed very easily by a thirsty population or desperate government. Not only that, wells represent the tapping of an areas water table. Any one can do that, and there are far more efficient ways to suck out the water table until it sinks out of reach. When water is that valuable and you have it, you'd better believe the water companies can and will drain you dry.

All of the norms that you rely on as the foundation of your way of life are subject to change, at the hands of nature and person alike. All of them.

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Bacnnator t1_izkfb7m wrote

I’m picturing Vader saying it. Not sure how I feel now.

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dickwildgoose t1_izkfjmg wrote

I wish I could still believe shit like this.

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[deleted] t1_izkgumk wrote

Replying to Crazy95jack (#894,991)

Charging people for a service is not charity, it’s nice and easy to point out bad shit happening but people won’t get their hands dirty, it’s all virtue signalling to make you feel good

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ValyrianJedi t1_izkj20j wrote

Replying to Trips-Over-Tail (#894,971)

I'm sorry buy you are just blowing scenarios far out of proportion to the extent that virtually no experts are claiming that what you are will happen, to the point that there really isn't even any point trying to respond to it... Think whatever you want obviously, but I don't really see any point trying to discuss it with you after that one

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neuropotpie t1_izkkox8 wrote

Is this about being in the moment vs post-nut clarity?

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ronflair t1_izkl38b wrote

Let’s play a guessing game! Motivational poster or concentration camp slogan?

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jollynotg00d t1_izknl3n wrote

Wow. I don't know why most of you are here, considering how irritated you get when you see the most basic optimistic statement ever.

"It will get better."

"WRONG. IDIOT. GO TO JAIL."

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starfirenitee t1_izkon3c wrote

This isn’t always true, but it is a nice thought. It’s more that there are still plenty of other great things too come AS WELL

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Castrosbeard t1_izkqbe5 wrote

Replying to sonderlulz (#895,116)

You could have said something similar in spirit right before one of the world wars you know. And shit, one in four people don't even HAVE access to the clean drinking water you just mentioned. There's a looming climate catastrophe that threatens to kill billions within our lifetime. Things may yet get better, but it isn't a given

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ComeFromTheWater t1_izkuuhp wrote

Replying to Castrosbeard (#895,548)

Working on yourself. Eating better, exercising, pursuing a passion. Developing a skill. Reading. Watching less TV and spending less time playing video games. Getting involved in your community.

Yes, work sucks, and we’re all tired, but the hardest part is starting, and the second hardest part is being consistent.

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Dengareedo t1_izkvcxp wrote

Replying to Castrosbeard (#895,484)

One in four is better than three in four

Threatening to kill is different to it happening

It’s also not set in stone to be terrible , sure bad things will happen but everything about the future is just a guess

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idistaken t1_izl4sha wrote

I would say tell that to my bedridden mother who has dementia and practically can't speak, but she would probably not even understand what the he!! you were talking about.

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jahwni t1_izla806 wrote

lol what a ridiculous statement

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Whisperingsoup t1_izlekx8 wrote

You actually can't definitively say that. All you can say is that it will be different, and that's exciting!

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amberkabrick3 t1_izlf7r6 wrote

I might be the only one that likes this quote. Depends on what you're thinking about when you read it I suppose! 🤣

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Korvun t1_izlg4pj wrote

What about when the rum's gone? Where's the rum gone...

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Globbelgorb t1_izlqktb wrote

Nuclear annihilation is better than covid?

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loneburrito t1_izlsajc wrote

I can’t wait for a hot load of trauma!

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specizripn t1_izm7gb9 wrote

Policy, crime, affordability etc. just keep getting worse… i think I would prefer to go backwards at this point

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fenderpaint07 t1_izma7m8 wrote

And what is happening now is better than either

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Sure-Ad-1563 t1_izmcch9 wrote

I’m gonna read this for motivation every time I’m about to drive home from the bar

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[deleted] t1_izn4rgf wrote

Happiness is gone. My massive gay cell mate is cumming :-(

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Bitter-Ad8728 t1_iznhd9i wrote

That’s a good one, sounds like Brian Tracey who said, it doesn’t matter where you are coming from, it matters on where you are going.

And one from scripture, king Solomon,

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

  • Ecclesiastes 9:4

This is why I like the rhythm of work, gym, church, for there is benefits in all three, with work, you collaborate with your boss and coworkers, increasing productivity and your finances, via good friendships, and with the gym, you team up with your brotherhood, collaborating on health and improving your body, strengthening it, and tuning it for longevity and athleticism, and with church, you pray and meditate with the fellowship, your pastors and church goers, studying scripture, encouraging each other and baring each other’s burdens and woes, and seeking the higher power.

Work, gym, church.

Friendship, brotherhood, friendship.

Pragmatic, practical and mystical.

Mind, body and spirit.

Keep going friends. Life is fight, it is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to live.

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