+1 for cleaning your space. I’ve found that just being sure to take something with me as I move from one room to the next is a super tiny but incredibly helpful task to mitigate negative feelings. Hey! My bed is made! My coffee table is clear! Was my mom here?! No! I did that on my own because I’m a functioning adult. It’s just rad to come home from a 5 mile walk and be greeted by an organized home.

Anything new is about building on actions. This could be learning to cook, play a guitar, play a video game, interacting with strangers, going for a walk, etc. Nothing is accomplished at once aside from the small steps you set for yourself.

So, set low expectations for yourself, practice the thing you want to get good at, and have hope that you’ll gain momentum and success.

This is actually something I’m practicing as much as I’m preaching. I started waking around the block, then about one mile. I work from home so I was experiencing pain from sitting around in weird positions all day. I could feel the benefits of walking. As I started to walk a little more, I started to lose some weight. Awesome! So now my motivation is to counteract sitting around all day as much as it is to fit in my old cloths and feel good about myself. I’m now waking about 4-5 miles a day.

For me though, to be honest, it’s about my physical well being. I’m not really feeling a huge improvement in my mental health. There is some improvement but not terribly much. I use a watch to track my activity so tracking and building on those records is something.

The thing I’m currently overcoming is not wanting to walk. It happened today. I was exhausted and not feeling motivated at all. But I went for a walk anyway. Everything melts away after about 1.5 miles for me. My speed increases, my focus is directed, my stress is relived, my goal becomes apparent. Tell yourself to fuck off and go for a walk for at least one mile. Then try to add 1/2 mile to that. And then 1/2 mile to that. Accomplishing these little goals ia rewarding and helps with depression. You accomplished more than you set out to do. You rock!!

Because you’re human and that’s what we do. There has been and always will be problems that exist beyond our control. What has made humanity unique is its ability to overcome or adapt to conflict.

You’re having what’s called an Existential Crisis where you question what the point of any of it is at all. Be it during the crisis we’re currently enduring or be it in a time of great peace and splendor, there very likely is no point to any of this.

Don’t allow the world to inflict unnecessary burden upon you. Find and focus on your inner peace.

If you want to find a purpose, be a good, genuine, and kind individual. Bring joy to others.

I think the better point here is that a lot of things have the potential to be dangerous if used too much.

A cheeseburger on its own is perfectly fine, five of them a week is a problem. Eight ounces of coffee a day is fine, more than twenty can be a problem. Eight ounces of soda is okay on its own but just because it’s served in huge bottles does not mean you’re supposed to drink it as your main source of liquid.

In the US, we have nutritional facts on most things but most people ignore them. If you care to, you can choose to limit your intake of substances to one serving.

On Reddit, up/down was intended to be used as relevant or not relevant. Then Facebook came around with the Like button and changed the standard.

Coming from the perspective of Digg, Reddit was about sharing external content and giving something an upvote was used to promote that content while a downvote was used to discourage that content from being seen. It was democratic in that the users were relied on for ranking posts without the need for moderators having to establish rules and remove things.

Then Reddit employed an algorithm and most people visit Popular and All making it a shitstorm of irrelevance. People upvote stuff they like that has absolutely no reason to be posted in a sub. Never mind everything that’s gone on with Reddit in recent months, it’s users’ inability to properly use the upvote / downvote buttons that has caused the site to become absolute trash.

Here, we have the added tool of the Star to indicate that we like something while at the same time downvoting it because it’s not relevant to the sub. The problem is that the vast majority of people don’t want to think about or put any effort into anything. At this point, anything that looks like a thumbs up is getting selected because they like it.

If you disagree with someone, you shouldn’t do anything unless you have something to say. Engage with them in conversation and express your point of view - this is “social media”. If others feel your point is relevant you should get an upvote; if you’re off topic you should get a downvote.

Reading over the other comments here, I think most people are expressing a similar perspective. It’s about rankings, not feelings.

It used to be that a new phone came with a relatively substantial new feature set. People have become accustomed to this and businesses have been built around this. At this point, it’s mostly about consumerism.

I’m still rocking an iPhone 12 Mini without the slightest hiccup as well as an original iPhone SE as my main music player. I used to be the person who got every new phone because there used to be such a jump in performance and hardware features. Now I have no reason to upgrade at all. Honestly, I’d love to get rid of my phone all together and just use an iPad, Apple Watch, and my camera and journal.