Year: 2021

Missing out

People are so afraid of missing out. They are rushing in, they are buying things sight unseen, and I’m telling you, it’s going to be a mistake. They have to learn how to reset and not come from a place of fear. Fear of “if they don’t do this they will never be able to do it”.

You will always be able to do everything you need to do people. Don’t rush time.

Suze Orman

You cannot selectively numb emotion

The problem is — and I learned this from the research — that you cannot selectively numb emotion. You can’t say, here’s the bad stuff. Here’s vulnerability, here’s grief, here’s shame, here’s fear, here’s disappointment. I don’t want to feel these. I’m going to have a couple of beers and a banana nut muffin. […] You can’t numb those hard feelings without numbing the other affects, our emotions. You cannot selectively numb. So when we numb those, we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness. And then, we are miserable, and we are looking for purpose and meaning, and then we feel vulnerable, so then we have a couple of beers and a banana nut muffin. And it becomes this dangerous cycle.

Brené Brown