A Photographer Asked Convicts To Write To Their Younger Selves And The Results Were Gut-Wrenching. 9 Common Clichés That Are Totally Untrue. 1.
Money doesn’t buy happiness. Whoever coined this phrase clearly never lived paycheck to paycheck. While there might be some truth to it, the lack of money certainly causes unhappiness. It’s hard to “live life to the fullest” and “savor every fleeting moment” like you’re supposed to when you’re barely making enough money to put off-brand food on the table every night. The fact of the matter is, it costs money to go places with your friends. 2. In my own personal life, I’ve seen karma fail miserably.
This deserves to be seen again and again until people get the f**king message. - Misc. The Most Important Question You Can Ask Yourself Today. Everybody wants what feels good.
Everyone wants to live a care-free, happy and easy life, to fall in love and have amazing sex and relationships, to look perfect and make money and be popular and well-respected and admired and a total baller to the point that people part like the Red Sea when you walk into the room. Everybody wants that -- it's easy to want that. If I ask you, "What do you want out of life? " and you say something like, "I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like," it's so ubiquitous that it doesn't even mean anything. Everyone wants that. What's more interesting to me is what pain do you want? Everybody wants to have an amazing job and financial independence -- but not everyone is willing to suffer through 60-hour work weeks, long commutes, obnoxious paperwork, to navigate arbitrary corporate hierarchies and the blasé confines of an infinite cubicle hell.
Because happiness requires struggle. People want an amazing physique. That's only partly true. 19 Anti-Feminist Thoughts Every Woman Has Had At Least Once. Yes, you feel immediately terrible .003 seconds after thinking these things, but sometimes you just can’t help it.
And sometimes you just wish that you could say it out loud. 1. “Sometimes I just wax/shave because I like the way it feels, and it happens to dovetail nicely with the patriarchy.” 2. “Quitting your job and just marrying a rich dude kind of seems like a life hack.” Success-is-not-always-what-you-see.jpg (309×320) Change+The+World_lo-res_Nathanael+Lark.jpg (1152×1152) The Nature of Ambition. Az said... well, that's so true.
Soemtimes though, it's not due to ambition. Things just get bigger and bigger until you can't handle them. The important thing is always: do what you love January 15, 2013 at 1:22 PM Glen Isip said... Such a sweet ending! January 15, 2013 at 1:50 PM Kathryn said... lovely ending, in fact the whole comic is lovely. i enjoyed the journey. :) January 15, 2013 at 4:11 PM dean said... Such a beautiful story. January 16, 2013 at 1:04 AM syed said... i still belive, There is nothing spontanous or natural about Human desires, we know what we desire but how do we what we desire, its all created from outside January 16, 2013 at 6:28 AM Grant said... Thanks all! January 16, 2013 at 7:48 AM Catie Chan said... Someone posted your comic on 9gag. January 17, 2013 at 1:23 PM Paintings said...
You've really captured the fun in these. January 18, 2013 at 12:18 AM Lisa said... Grant, that is so sweet! January 19, 2013 at 12:31 AM Anonymous said... Saw you reblogged on tumblr! The 29 Worst Things About Being In Your 20s. 1.
Realizing that, post 21, there is not a whole lot in the way of “awesome milestone birthday” that you really look forward to, and that birthdays just get progressively more depressing. 2. The awkward transition from college which convinced you that you were going to get an awesome job in an economy which has just about none of those, and is filled with people who basically mock you for not being able to get your shit together. 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person. 2017, motherfuckers.
Yeah! LET'S DO THIS. "Do what? " Text of J.K. Rowling’s speech. By J.K.
Rowling, Copyright J.K. Rowling Text as delivered. President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, proud parents, and, above all, graduates. The first thing I would like to say is ‘thank you.’ Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. You see?