This is what personal growth looks like tbh. Eventually you learn just because you have a shovel in your hand that you don't always have to dig with it... And then you start clocking dickhead with it like I do!
Everything in life is consequence to our own actions though
Edit: That doesn't mean other people don't affect us of course. But by the time you're an adult, there have probably been hundreds of times you could've killed yourself if you didn't want to live with the hand you've been dealt. Surviving is voluntary. Anything you've ever done or has been done to you after choosing to survive, is a consequence to that choice.
Obviously I'm not saying that being born with a disability or as a discriminated minority is a consequence to our own actions. Living with it is a choice, though. One most of us make even despite being presented with hardships - otherwise the human race would've died long ago.
Yeah, like choosing to be born poor or a persecuted minority.
Edit re your edit -
Obviously I'm not saying that being born with a disability or as a discriminated minority is a consequence to our own actions. Living with it is a choice, though. One most of us make even despite being presented with hardships - otherwise the human race would've died long ago.
"You could always choose to kill yourself, therefore all your problems are the result of your choices" is one hell of a hot take.
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CheesyFingers@piefed.social · 55 pts · 276d
Hot take: still valid.
We can still appreciate and celebrate the success of climbing out of a hole even if the subject was the one who dug it.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 276d
This is what personal growth looks like tbh. Eventually you learn just because you have a shovel in your hand that you don't always have to dig with it... And then you start clocking dickhead with it like I do!
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 277d
It ain’t just guys. Let me tell you the story of my ex…
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 276d
Now this is a story, all about how, my life got flip-turned upside down...
trolololol@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 276d
So kids, sit down. This is how I met your mother. Buckle up, this version spans 5 years.
sparkles@piefed.zip · 15 pts · 276d
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 276d
Cognitive behavioral therapy helps with this exact problem
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 276d
Worse case it is like the new Frankenstein movie
WHO IS TRYING TO KILL YOU
well, it all started with my Dad when I was a baby...
Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 276d
It was sooo bad 😭😭 not even faithful to the original, let alone even remotely entertaining.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 276d
I love that emo aesthetic only del Toro can bring. but dude, the people who rescued you want to know what they're dealing with, it's not free therapy.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 276d
Everything in life is consequence to our own actions though
Edit: That doesn't mean other people don't affect us of course. But by the time you're an adult, there have probably been hundreds of times you could've killed yourself if you didn't want to live with the hand you've been dealt. Surviving is voluntary. Anything you've ever done or has been done to you after choosing to survive, is a consequence to that choice.
Obviously I'm not saying that being born with a disability or as a discriminated minority is a consequence to our own actions. Living with it is a choice, though. One most of us make even despite being presented with hardships - otherwise the human race would've died long ago.
snooggums@piefed.world · 32 pts · 276d
Sometimes it is the consequences of other people's actions.
MotoAsh@piefed.social · 16 pts · 276d
Nono, you totally just didn't recycle enough aluminum and glass. Anthropogenic climate change is definitely your fault!
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 276d
There's a hell of a lot more other people than there are me.
Seems like most of the consequences i suffer are from other people's actions
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · -4 pts · 276d
But every day you are suffering from your own decision to keep living. Existing in the world as we know it is voluntary.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 276d
Yeah, like choosing to be born poor or a persecuted minority.
Edit re your edit -
"You could always choose to kill yourself, therefore all your problems are the result of your choices" is one hell of a hot take.
Strider@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 276d
Not everything, like illnesses and disorders.
I mostly still agree.
airgapped@piefed.social · 1 pts · 276d
no guy has ever dropped the line "you don't know what I've been through"