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earning a new lease on life through temporary sickness

Sickness simplifies your perspective as you lay around ill, imagining all of the fun things you will do and change about your life when you feel better again.

@animalskentucky

Nov 1, 2023

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New lease on life you get after illness

Shit be making me feel SO grateful for my life and like I can achieve anything. I swear every time I go through a really bad depression slump I need to get physically ill to shock myself out of it

@blessthosewhocurseyou

Oct 29, 2024

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Viewing life as a bonus round

Ever since I got sober, I’ve had this nagging feeling that I got away with something that many people I’ve known over the years did not. Acknowledging this truth always alleviates any momentary anxiety I might be feeling and mainlines a potent batch of gratitude into my system. Life continues to throw a lot at you even after you’ve cleaned up your act, and in many ways it feels a lot harder to handle because reality isn’t so foggy anymore and problems aren’t as easy to shrug off as they once were. But remembering that I’m lucky to still be here at all and that I just might be in the bonus round of my life always makes me thrilled to be alive.“I want to live again!” - George Bailey, “It’s A Wonderful Life”

@kj

Oct 31, 2023

Top Recs from @sam_mercauto27

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early evening Edible and iced coffee accented by some SPIRITUAL jazz

A joint and a coffee is conventionally accepted as a “hippy speedball;” but given that I’ve quit smoking (my formerly beloved cigarettes, in particular) for all intents and purposes over the last couple years…edibles are my preferred method of marijuana ingestion (if any). Regardless of how you do it…the up and down is beloved for a reason. Mix in a little spiritual jazz…Pharoah Sanders’ golden age is my favorite, personally…now you’re cooking, ladies and germs. Just don’t overdo it on dosage. Then you’ll be feeling way too spiritual and the lightness is tarnished.

@sam_mercauto27

Nov 22, 2023

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Slow and steady start to a sunday morning/early afternoon

It’s been discussed here and there on this platform through different recommendations before, BUT I feel that there’s an almost holy level of beauty to Sunday slow-start rituals that needs to be emphasized. Maybe you sleep in a little longer than during a harried work week, maybe you randomly wake up early and quietly steep yourself in the sunlight as it starts to filter into your favorite room in your space, perhaps a physical edition of a Sunday newspaper or periodical to thoughtfully consider (or even to just sort of stare at), slow-sipping that delicious caffeinated beverage you start each and every day with, some warm and cozy jazz or folk accenting the proceedings in the background (centering you spiritually). Treat yourself. Life can rule if you let it.

@sam_mercauto27

Jan 21, 2024

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Clay pigeons live video by blaze foley

Such a haunting, devastatingly beautiful piece of acoustic brilliance from the late-great outlaw country singer-songwriter. People like him and Townes Van Zandt truly elevated the genre to a form of high art with their gorgeous, lived-in lyricism.

@sam_mercauto27

Dec 19, 2023