You Don’t Need to Prove Your Worth to Anyone
At some point, many of us quietly decide that life is an audition.
Nobody tells us this directly. There is no orientation meeting where someone hands you a clipboard and says, “Welcome. Your job from now on is to convince everyone that you are smart enough, attractive enough, successful enough, interesting enough, and generally doing a respectable job at being a human being.”
But somehow we get the message.
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“Am I wrong for feeling betrayed after she said she wasn’t looking for anything?”
I’m a 24 year old guy, and I hate my job aside from my coworkers. I’ve been there about seven months. A couple months ago, a new woman started on our shift. I’ll call her Ashley. She’s 28, beautiful, funny, sassy, and pretty much everyone likes her.
We work third shift in different areas, so we mostly started talking during breaks. A couple coworkers and I invited her to Waffle House after work, and she started coming with us. Eventually we exchanged socials and started talking constantly.
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I Was 32, Fit and Healthy. Then I Had a Heart Attack.
I was 32 years old when I had a heart attack.
At the time, I worked as a personal trainer. I lifted weights regularly. I cycled a lot. I was active enough that having a heart attack wasn’t something that was even remotely on my radar.
The morning it happened started like plenty of other mornings.
I drank some black coffee, smoked some weed, and went into my home gym to work out.
Not long after I started lifting, something felt off.
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Poll of the Day
Christa Pike survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her after receiving two doses of lethal injection drugs. What should happen now?
Linkage
Will A.I. Make Your Brain Lazy? Here’s What the New Research Actually Shows. – NYTimes
27 Photos That Will Make You Miss a World That Was Objectively Less Convenient – Ned Hardy
This book should be your next read because it’s a simple, devastating story about intelligence, love, dignity, and what actually makes a life worth living and it’ll stay with you long after you finish it. – Amazon
Disney World solved a problem that could save America billions every year – Vox
Trump sends third aircraft carrier to Middle East with 10K more troops – NYPost
Christa Pike: what we know so far about Tennessee woman’s failed execution – The Guardian
What Grip Strength Can Tell You About Your Health – Archive.ph
With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now – Ars Technica
24 Works of Art Worth Slowing Down For – Ned Hardy
Puzzles are great for adults because they give your brain something rare: focused, low-stakes problem-solving that pulls you away from scrolling and everyday worries while exercising memory, attention, pattern recognition, and reasoning. – Amazon
5 Gastrointestinal Symptoms You Should Never Ignore – NYTimes
Hospitals Have a Little-Known Tool To Prevent Medical Debt. Here’s How It Works. – KFF Health News
My wife obsessively consumes US news. She’s so stressed but can’t turn off. What should I do? – The Guardian
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is expanding to serve more kids. – LitHub
So You Think You Could Be An Electrician? – Asterisk Mag
The Dumping Grounds
Why Some Men Find Power in Giving Up Their Money
There are few corners of sexuality more misunderstood than financial domination. To most people, the idea sounds absurd: a man willingly hands over his hard earned money to a woman who may barely speak to him, may never touch him, and may disappear after a single interaction. Sometimes we are talking about hundreds of dollars. Sometimes thousands. Sometimes life changing amounts of wealth.
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Poll of the Day
Press a button and both of your parents instantly become 20 years younger and perfectly healthy, but 10 years are taken from your own life, potentially years you would have spent with your spouse, children, and grandchildren. Do you press it?
Adversity Introduces a Man to Himself
We spend the vast majority of our lives trying to curate a pristine, problem-free existence. We want the job with the big paycheck and zero stress. We want the partner who looks like a supermodel and acts like a therapist. We want the six-pack abs without giving up the Tuesday night tacos.
We are obsessed with comfort. We are addicted to the idea that “success” means reaching a point where life stops hitting us.
But here is the hard truth that nobody puts on a motivational poster because it doesn’t sell seminars: You don’t actually know who the hell you are until everything falls apart.