Essays, Lectures, and Rants : The Thoughts Of Elaine Barlow
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First Coffee Thoughts
First Coffee Thoughts (previously under “Musings” and “CoSo”) are blog versions of my #FirstCoffeeThoughts multi-thread posts on CounterSocial. These are here for posterity and also to make them easier for people to read at a later time should they wish to.
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Happiness Isn’t Real
Happiness is a very mundane, fleeting, uncontrollable emotion that leads to pathological and obsessive compulsions to gain or retain it.
You Are In Control
We can't control external events, but we can control our response to them, finding peace and resilience in embracing whatever life throws our way.
Dysregulating Isn’t Surviving
Survival is a badge you earn but that doesn't mean you can use it to judge others as weak. Surviving is a choice. Your reality is not everyone's reality.
Protect Your Peace
ANYONE can be a psychologist. Letters after someone's name only means they test well, not that they live well or ARE well.
I Am Different Than You
I think one of the fundamental differences with people who are considered neurodivergent is foreground processing and hyper-awareness of that processing.
Social Media Has Made You Strange
Social media is not life. It's a VERSION of life people choose because it's easier and makes you feel like you have more control.
A Different View
There are 3 primary reasons people watch media and none of those have anything to do with truly appreciating art.
You Need To Become Media Literate
99% of people AREN'T doing ANY thinking on a conscious, deliberate, or active level AT ALL times and if you think you are, you're deluding yourself.
Your Delusional Language
Where is your wound? Projecting your own reality into the outside world and using your preferred connotations to interpret what you see out there is DELUSIONAL.
Choices = Consequences
There is a difference between being DENIED choice and simply not liking what is presented for you to decide upon.