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The News

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"The news is always terrible, it's supposed to be, no one wants to get out of bed in the morning and find out that nothing has changed. You want a good terror attack with your breakfast, something that makes life feel dramatic and important. If you want to heal a chronically bored life, get into the news, it's a literal train wreck. But sometimes gawking at the unending horror is not enough. You think, should I be joining in? Am I bad if I'm just drinking in the spectacle but not doing any terrorism myself? But then you think what if I just get shot in face like I always do? What if I do a terrorism and people are like, too far man, you've overdone it, you've lost me! What if people are like, why couldn't you just stay at home like a normal person, why do you have to always commit hundreds of murders? So here we are, you can either stay up to date with the news or you can be a terrorist, there is no middle ground. I feel like I am d

Self Compassion

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I'm pretty much an expert at starting a new video series, so this time I'm not even going to say anything. Sure, it's a new thing for me, where I make short videos that are scripted, or at least I'm reading words instead of pulling them out of my head as I speak, but you don't need to know any of that. Here's the script: I've been thinking about changing the direction of my compassion slightly so it bounces of me first before it collides with my loved ones then everyone and everything else. I was feeling anxious, probably about climate change, and I thought “I could use some good vibes right now. There's no point asking anyone else for help though, they're up shit creek too”. And I remembered that a wise man once said that it's good to be compassionate and you shouldn't forget to have compassion for yourself. And just like that I felt much better as I imagined coming compassion all over my own face and I visualised my own compass