Everything's gonna be be okay

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.

– Joan Rivers

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope:

“Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?

And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.

I

• Schedule a worry hour → let it all out, and be done with it

• Focus on what you can control → stoics knew

• Trust your future self → it will handle shit

– Emely Anhalt at Beyond Tellerrand 2023