The people who believe the self-help nonsense of "Life isn't what happens to you, it's how you react to what happens" have never really struggled or faced a cascading series of bad luck scenarios.

The_Downward_Spiral@lemmy.world · 11 hours ago

The people who believe the self-help nonsense of "Life isn't what happens to you, it's how you react to what happens" have never really struggled or faced a cascading series of bad luck scenarios.

JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world · 3 hours ago

There’s a way to hear that saying that’s dumb as fucking bricks, and there’s a way that’s profound and healing and beautiful and constitutes a surprisingly large portion of everything you need in life. Sometimes it flicks back and forth moment to moment in the same brain.