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  1. This is bs. People aren't making any money, homeless is skyrocketing, people are taking their life, disability services around the world is attacked while military funded increases, and so on.

    Dont give me this bs on traffic

  2. Not that it's always it's possible to see much of a big picture (ex. death of a loved one if you don't believe in the afterlife/have a religious belief that makes you think they're going to hell despite how beautiful a person they were to you).

  3. In my experience, suffering due to Zooming In doesn't just apply to small situations but also lifestyle. A large part of my life I was so zoomed into my academics and career that I forget everything else like making friends and socialising. I haven't made it that far in my career, and that's okay, but the fact that I put myself through so much during that period of life and now neither do I know a single person outside my office and home nor do I have the ability to make one.
    I wish I zoomed out a little every now and then

  4. Omg, again you put an image into words. I'm claustrophobic and getting into a lift, this is what I think!
    I literally see myself not inside the little box, but the box in a building, the building in a city, the city in the open air.

  5. "The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy." -Arthur Schopenhauer

  6. Weeeeelll…. sort of. I totally get that, but it doesn't work 100%. For instance, you are stuck in the traffic, you zoom out, and you focus on being late for a critical job interview. That doesn't help with the anxiety. In fact, if you really look at the big, big pici, things don't look too good. Have you looked outside lately? This whole planet is a complete mess. The only way to eliminate anxiety is to be ok with uncertainty, suffering, and death. Of these, suffering is probably the hardest to be ok with.

  7. I’m just curious 😋 Is rumination can be considered a mental illness too? (Not talking about myself, but I know a lot of folks (vast majority) suffer from rumination and stuck there forever… What’s the difference between anxiety and rumination in terms of treatment, for example?

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