This was contentiously the last thing Frida Kahlo ever painted: But even if it’s not agreed that it undeniably was, it’s pretty much agreed that her inscription was done just days before she died. Despite her challenging life, she perhaps still maintained that love for life, through all life’s good and …
Any thing ‘fortunate’ that happens happen with either the help of other people, conditions or things you don’t control. Getting married relies on someone else accepting you. Having a baby relies on favourable biological dispositions within the father and mother’s body. Getting accepted into University relies on acceptance by the …
What’s the point of tattoos? I don’t know and it might be different for every person, but today I’m getting this done on one arm: And this on the other: With this text somewhere too: It’s so exciting… Things which you have no control over… You can see a great …
Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living. And as is one without purpose. A purpose for everything we do. When’s the last time you handwrote a letter and sent it? I’m about to for the first time since September 2006, to a friend across a shit ton of …
The Pirahã people of Brazil don’t believe anything unless they actually see it for themselves. And if they’re told a story or someone gives them advice, they don’t accept it unless that person’s actually experienced it themself. It’s the ‘immediacy of experience’ principle. The Pirahã also don’t think or talk about worst-case scenarios …
This happened today (well, actually last week, but I don’t check my Facebook because I have 0 Facebook friends): That’s pretty cool. Especially since it’s Ben Lee –someone whose music I not only love, but whose philosophy on life is one I try to live by in many ways. Another …
Clickbait is everywhere. Basically anything on the internet is clickbait. But it’s not different to anything else in life either. Newspaper headlines, movie names, even book titles are all cooked up to hook you. But the internet is pretty much based on clickbait. Articles with titles designed to make you worry, …
Academy and Grammy award winners talk about the crash they feel soon after they win. They get the high of the victory but soon after, many think ‘Is that it? Now what? Where do I go from here?’ It’s because being what society sees as ‘successful’ is something most of …
If this were the last day you were going to be alive, what would you do? And at the end of it, would you be happy with how you spent it? I’m sure you’ve seen this kind of thing before: or: or the lamest one of all: Shitty. And the last one’s …
Devoting all your effort and time into leaving a legacy is like going to Disneyland and instead of actually going on the rides, you spend the whole day convincing people that no one has ever ridden Disneyland’s rides with such valour, bravery and heroism as you. That you ride the rides …
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![Missing the point #6 & [Am I full of shit? #2]: Why am I getting a tattoo of Snufkin today?* (Especially since he’s maybe the last person who’d see the point in getting one) *Actually,2 of him and 2 of what he says.](http://whyyoudo.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Screen-Shot-2017-12-02-at-8.08.39-am-copy.jpg)
