Thank you for your wisdom monkey man
Misery Olympics, or Competitive Suffering.
No matter how bad you have it, someone else has to tell you they have it worse.
while it does make you seem like a badass, it really just means your performance is bad, ass.
Something I learned from cycling: When you put effort into using it, the morning is this mysterious beast of free time. We often get used to waking up, doing two-three things, and then it’s noon.
If you consciously sleep early, wake up early, and maybe plan to go somewhere as soon as you’re up, you can be back home planning to shower at your normal time, practically seeing your half asleep self doomscrolling in your bed from a prior day. You could even put a whole gaming session before your workday, if your job starts late enough.
I lowkey hate people like this . You can say “I’m so tired I did 15 hour shift today” and they’ll say “that’s nothing I did a 24 hour shift and still haven’t slept”. I didn’t ask???
I saw this last night, and only got 4. Damn your eyes, I have to work DX
At least working dicks tends to pay well.
I think the text should be changed to like
- I only got 4 hours of sleep
- haha I only got 1
To better capture the weird superiority aspect that people have over their suffering in response to other people’s complaints. As written, it reads more like someone making a joke about not getting much sleep and then someone responding (not in a joking way) that they got less.
For various unavoidable reasons, I’m on an average of 4 hours and I don’t like it, let alone take pride in it.
Take heart. I averaged about 4.5 hours a day for 3 years running on third shift. I’ve since changed back to first and have been at almost 7 for over a year. There’s a light at the end of the tunnel.
Short term and long term are ill defined subjective entities, if my short term is long term enough I win.
Do people actually flex how much of less sleep they got? I never met anyone who do this.
Absolutely
8 sleep? Yes. But what about naps, snoozes, dozing off, lucid dreaming, daydreaming, just resting my eyes, sleepwalking, wake sleeping, meditative trances and altered consciousness?
No
Makes me think of how I recently read Ishmael and it literally changed my life. I understand now. I am ape. Do as ape do.
There’s like, a lot more than that, but that was my biggest takeaway (which would probably make the author very sad given what the book was actually about)
Are you a taker or a leaver?
I come from a taker culture. I’m doing my best to unlearn and be a leaver. It starts (to me) with the recognition that the way I have been living is a way uncooperative with nature, and incompatible with sustainability. I’ve been growing more spiritual, not to pacify myself but to take time to give thanks to the world for what it has given me. I drive less than I used to, opting to cycle or walk most of the time.
I think it’s safe to say I’m still a taker (I mean hell I live on stolen Diné land), but I’m doing my best to learn to not be. As soon as I can, I plan to leave this place, it can’t sustain a population like this and I can’t in good conscience contribute to it’s destruction.
I am ape. Do as ape do.
But if I fling poo at everyone who annoys me, I’m pretty sure I’ll be arrested.
you gotta plan your exit better dude
If ape fling poo in city, ape get arrested too. To free one’s mind from the shackles of society, does not free them from the consequence of interacting with it.
