Pick Up, Live Life: towards an enjoyable yet sustainable lifestyle

Consider others:

Strangers aside, you feel as if your role with your family and friends has already been typecast, and it is beyond you to go against their expectations. (Friends)

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Consider others:

Strangers aside, you feel as if your role with your family and friends has already been typecast, and it is beyond you to go against their expectations. (Family)

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Consider others:

Strangers aside, you feel as if your role with your family and friends has already been typecast, and it is beyond you to go against their expectations. (Parents)

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Just a prelude for this section: It may seem ironic that, to enforce self-centredness, I must first spell out such plenty and extensive considerations for others. This is not a simple paradox that nullifies my validity and confirms my shit-for-brains, but goes to show that the types[1] of self-centred behaviours I’m condoning in fact usually benefits others in win/win manners. Thus, in a strange way, inconsideration is the greatest consideration[2].

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FOOTNOTES
1. yle=”padding-left: 30px;”>Just a prelude for this section: It may seem ironic that, to enforce self-centredness, I must first spell out such plenty and extensive considerations for others. This is not a simple paradox that nullifies my validity and confirms my shit-for-brains, but goes to show that the types{{1}} of self-centred behaviours I’m condoning in fact usually benefits others in win/win manners. Thus, in a strange way, inconsideration is the greatest consideration{{2}}.

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2. yle=”padding-left: 30px;”>Just a prelude for this section: It may seem ironic that, to enforce self-centredness, I must first spell out such plenty and extensive considerations for others. This is not a simple paradox that nullifies my validity and confirms my shit-for-brains, but goes to show that the types[1] of self-centred behaviours I’m condoning in fact usually benefits others in win/win manners. Thus, in a strange way, inconsideration is the greatest consideration{{2}}.

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Consider others:

Through physical and mental insecurities, you conclude that winning at life is not socially normative, and that you require more unnatural confidence, self-worth, and physical power, before you feel sociopathic enough to go out and strive for what should not be rightfully yours.

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Consider others:

Through some blind concept of altruism, you conclude that the needs of others are more important than your own, that you live but only to serve others, and that you cannot win without others losing.

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Consider others:

“No one else is doing pick-up, and there must be a reason for this – who am I to cast the first stone? Everyone will hate me – and I won’t be able to live with that.”

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Consider others:

We correlate “mundane social thoughtfulness” with “social expectations own my soul” (as aforementioned), and then think we’re being first-class citizens by following the latter.

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Note: This is the first of a string of bite-sized reposts from the Unconsider Others series, as justified here.

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