Ask Lemmy

From "The Good Place": If soulmates do exist, they're not found. They're made.

I believe Seth MacFarlane said something similar in "The Orville".

A great reminder from two great shows.

My Uncle once told me that the most important thing you can learn is where to find more information.

Bill Nye: "Everyone you'll ever meet knows something you don't"

“Don’t work yourself out if a job.”

My pops told me this after I told him how much more work I had been doing than my coworkers, and how fast I got all of my stuff done. This was like 15 years ago. I immediately started pacing myself, and I’ve since been infinitely less stressed at work.

When my dad was teaching me how to ride a bike, I kept falling.

He noticed that I was paying so much attention to the road that I couldn't focus on riding the bike.

Finally he picked me up, looked me dead in the eyes and said, "You rule the road. Don't let the road rule you".

Somehow that phrase immediately gave me the ability to ride a bicycle.

I have shared it with other people learning to ride a bicycle after they have fallen down at least once.

It freaking works.

This can be applied to anything, but the quote as I read it in a book by Piers Anthony (I know, gross, I was in middle school), was:

Power is a means to an end. Don't let the means become the end.

I often think of it as:

Money is a means to an end. Don't let the means become the end.

No matter where you go, there you are.

• Buckaroo Banzai

"The thing about happiness is that you only know you had it when it's gone. I mean, you may think to yourself that you're happy. But you don't really believe it. You focus on the petty bullshit, or the next job, or whatever. It's only looking back by comparison with what comes after that you really understand, that's what happiness felt like."

-Conrad Kellogg. Fallout 4.

"Sometimes, at the end of a sentence, I come out with the wrong fusebox. And the thing about saying the wrong word is a] I don't notice it, and b] sometimes orange water given bucket of plaster."

I think we can all take something away from that.

Two quotes/ statements from a book named “The Midnight Library” ;

• “If you aim to be something you are not, you will always fail. Aim to be you. Aim to look and act and think like you. Aim to be the truest version of you. Embrace that you-ness. Endorse it. Love it. Work hard at it. And don't give a second thought when people mock it or ridicule it. Most gossip is envy in disguise”.

• “Never underestimate the big importance of small things”.

The world needs fewer cynics and more skeptics.

You won't know if you don't ask.

People fear rejection or embarrassment for asking other people questions but once you realize that it's the most efficient way to navigate life it really helps. Saves you time and energy. Often saves you emotional energy as well in the long run.

If you like someone just ask them.

If you want to know where someone got something or learned a skill just ask them.

Curiosity is important and I feel so many people are so socially anxious that they will just try and Google and Google as opposed to entering into a simple verbal exchange with a stranger or something.

What is better: to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?

Loneliness is the tax we have to pay to atone for a certain complexity of mind

I was going to post something cheeky like “Fuck here we go again”, noped out, pressed backspace and then this…

"If it weren't for my horse, I would've never spent that year in college."

I don't know what it means, but it has changed my life.