en
Allie Brosh

Hyperbole and a Half

Уведоми ме, когато книгата е добавена
За да прочете тази книга, качете я във формат EPUB или FB2 в Bookmate. Как се качва книга?
  • A16lцитирапреди 3 години
    But that’s exactly what happened. After thirty-five days, I decided to just never go back to Blockbuster again.

    Most people can motivate themselves to do things simply by knowing that those things need to be done. But not me. For me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it. If I win, I have to do something I don’t want to do. If I lose, I’m one step
  • b9766336818цитирапреди 2 години
    Fear and shame are the backbone of my self-control.
  • b9766336818цитирапреди 2 години
    turns out that being scared of yourself is a somewhat effective motivational technique.
  • b9766336818цитирапреди 2 години
    me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it. If I win, I have to do something I don’t want to do. If I lose, I’m one step closer to ruining my entire life.
  • Daniela Orozcoцитирапреди 3 години
    Thankfully, I have an entire system of lies and tricks in place to prevent me from realizing how shitty I actually am.
  • Daniela Orozcoцитирапреди 3 години
    I don’t like when I can’t control what reality is doing. Which is unfortunate because reality works independently of the things I want, and I have only a limited number of ways to influence it, none of which are guaranteed to work.

    I still want to keep tabs on reality, though. Just in case it tries to do anything sneaky. It makes me feel like I’m contributing. The illusion of control makes the helplessness seem more palatable. And when that illusion is taken away, I panic.
  • Daniela Orozcoцитирапреди 3 години
    I am incensed that reality has the audacity to do some of the things it does when I CLEARLY don’t want those things to happen.
  • Daniela Orozcoцитирапреди 3 години
    Reality doesn’t give a shit about my rules, and this upsets me. Not to a great degree. Not even to an obvious degree. But when reality disobeys my rules, detectable levels of surprise, disappointment, and frustration are produced.
  • Daniela Orozcoцитирапреди 3 години
    At some point in this endlessly spiraling disaster, I am forced to throw all of my energy into trying to be an adult again, just to dig myself out of the pit I’ve fallen into. The problem is that I enter this round of attempted adulthood already burnt out from the last round. I can’t not fail.
  • Daniela Orozcoцитирапреди 3 години
    But making high-pitched noises won’t solve your problem if your problem is a complete inability to cope with change
fb2epub
Плъзнете и пуснете файловете си (не повече от 5 наведнъж)