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The Comfortable Life Is Killing You
This post made me think about how we apply ‘earth’ solutions to ‘air’ problems. We think we need more comfort when actually we are drowning in comfort and crying for more meaning and connection.
https://open.substack.com/pub/cityquitters/p/practicing-being-human?r=pcicf&utm_medium=ios
If we dare to look beyond the surface and listen to what psychology, philosophy, and science are trying to tell us, the message is clear: a life soaked in too much safety and comfort slowly erodes us. Comfort, in excess, dulls the spirit—and the longer we cling to it, the more we drift into a quiet, unnoticed decline.
Poetic Outlaws • The Comfortable Life Is Killing You
Our flat-line lifestyles lead to flattened cognition, flattened creativity, and a flattened spirit. Anhedonia (the loss of pleasure), depression, and cynicism begin to darken our days.
Frank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
I Failed At Everything
open.substack.com
“You can get real in-depth and intellectual with all that stuff, but when it comes down to it—doing anything, and not having a purpose behind it, and then feeling like you don’t have any other option except to continue: it’s terrible. At least for me, it turns into—well, what’s the point?”