Let’s change it up a bit.
So I was sitting here thinking that maybe what my blog needs is a bit more me.
Some more personal content, you know?
Generally that’s not my style, but I’ve been feeling like I’m stagnating lately.
I don’t know how many of you watch the sarcaschicks channel, but if you don’t, I highly recommend that you rectify that situation. Anyways, Lindsay Williams (the one who posts on Wednesdays) made an interesting video on the topic of stress.
She relayed an interesting concept to the internet that I’ve been turning over in my head ever since.
To summarize, the idea was that if you are ever feeling stressed or that you can’t handle something, you should expand your mindset to try and comprehend the lives and stresses of the other people in your household, then general vicinity, then city, then country, then planet, etc.
The main point of the exercise being to realize the insignificance of not only the stress in your life, but of the apparent pointlessness of it all. Of everything.
Now I don’t really think of myself as a nihilist by any sense of the word, but on the same token, I don’t really have any strong inclinations to believe in the opposite either.
I guess I’m just baffled by my glaringly obvious lack of decisiveness in such matters. And I’m not sure that I’m okay with that. And what’s worse, I’m not sure that I can fix that even if I wanted to.
I suppose that all this mind-gunk that I’ve spewed out is a by-product from the fact that I’m currently in three highly compressed uni courses and that means that I’ve been engulfed by an increasingly extensive pile of reading. My mind can’t contain it all.
Speaking of the reading list of death, I think it’s demanding that I dedicate another few hours to it tonight.
It’s that or death by papercuts. Which would be an interesting, albeit torturous way to go, don’t you think?
p.s. I’ve been reading Gatsby for the first time as a bit of light reading. For all zero of you who were going to call me on my plagiarism.
