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Read something today by Rick Warren: "One of the greatest secrets in learning to be content is to realize that you don’t really own anything. It’s all on loan to you for a few decades! You didn’t bring a single thing into this world, and you’re not going to carry anything out of it, either. You just get to use it while you’re here on earth.
The Bible calls that stewardship. You are the manager or steward of what God allows you to have while you’re here, but it’s not actually yours. When you understand that you’re just a manager of the blessings God allows in your life and you hold them with an open hand, you won’t be uptight about losing them.
So what if you lose things? God can turn off one faucet and turn on another just as easily. Learn to be content because things don’t last. God is more interested in your character than your comfort."
Aug 31, 2024
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Sure, I definitely could buy that 9800X3D I want, and I could really use more money. I’m hyped about the Christian Dior chain I bought for way below MSRP.
None of those things will truly make me happy though.
Being content with what you have will. You don’t always have to have it all. That’s not to say you have to stop striving for more. To me, being content means recognizing the value in every relationship and experience you have, practicing gratitude, and simultaneously striving to be the best version of yourself you can be. When I was much younger, I thought clothes made the man, women only liked money, and that you always had to keep up with the Joneses. This materialist mentality robbed me of joy and happiness. Older wiser me knows that none of those things are true, that happiness comes from gratitude and comparison is the thief of joy.
May 2, 2025
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it‘s a cliche for sure, but in recent years i have become a big believer in every event, good or bad, having some sort of purpose, whether it be a big or little one. i guess this helps me to stay content in the moment because it reminds me that, “hey! i know you might be upset about this thing right now, but it’ll work out. you just have to let it.” i am a big time worrier, and i always want to control situations as much as i can, but i have found that if i just let them play out, they’ll go the way they were meant to. (and if it’s not in a good way, at least it’s a good story).
and, honestly, it helps me just remembering what a miracle it is to be alive at all; to have the blessing of living at the same time as the people i love; to feel the sun shine on my face in that very moment. we are so small in the grand scheme of things, but here we are!!! how wonderful is that!!!
it’s like in ”vienna”: “slow down, you’re doing fine, you can’t be everything you wanna be before your time.”
Sep 24, 2024
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Biblically, you read in Ecclesiastes that everything is “meaningless, meaningless, everything is meaningless” which is a poor translation. The word in Hebrew is Hebel, which translates into “mist” or “vapor” or “mere breath,” which is to say something that is fleeting or elusive. Life is, per Ecclesiastes, hebel itself but also filled with things that are hebel — career, wealth, pleasure, success. The whole book is about how life is this thing that is here today and gone tomorrow, and all the things that are hebel are lost to (1) time or (2) death. But then the author says we can actually accept the hebel-ness, and when we do, we can accept the gifts from God — friends & family, food & joy, the sun, the work we have been allowed to do, the enjoyment of said work!
As I age, there’s something so healthy about unpacking the book that was used to sway me as a child, and instead find so much wisdom in it. In 2025 I am going to try to accept that life is fragile, fleeting and hard to understand, and I’m going to learn to enjoy the “gifts” before me instead of wasting the time I have here on trying to build or create things that will be lost to time or death.
Dec 29, 2024
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Python!
Honestly very hard for me to get into - I have ZERO coding knowledge and nothing I could really latch onto - knowledge transfer is how I learn. But https://futurecoder.io/ is great (after lots of Redditing)
Aug 18, 2024
The puffin is the latest addition to more than 180 known species—many of them sharks, corals, and other marine animals—that emit a luminous glow.
The fact that so many marine animals biofluoresce "tells us organisms are using light in ways we don't even see," John Sparks, curator of fishes at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
Nov 16, 2024
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I read that happiness is when your expectations falls below the reality. A new mind project for April. Good prognosis.
Apr 7, 2024