#squeeze that motherfucker for all its worth bc it is 20% smaller by portion each year and twice as expensive

[pedulum-chronometry]

You misunderstand.

Of course life is a scam. You get too little. You have too little control. It can be over far too quickly. Inequality is fact rather than idea. You must scrape and whiteknuckle it to get through. But what do you do with that information?

Will you dedicate yourself to fixing what unfairness you can? Will you channel your large and roiling feelings about it into art? Or will you spend what time you have cherishing the family (found or otherwise) and friends that you managed to find in this life?

What you choose to spend your time and energy on in this inherently unfair and brutal world is what gives meaning and weight to life.

Of course life’s a scam but that just means you get to scam life right back.

A scam, by definition, is about taking something from you without giving you enough in return or anything at all. So take stuff back or stop giving it so much.

Don’t want to adhere to some expectation or norm? Going to college, having kids, dressing normally, sleeping at night and being awake during the day? Then don’t. Fuck that shit!

Dress in period clothing when going grocery shopping. Get a night job. Adopt pets or plants.

Honestly one of the best things for my mental health was figuring out what made me happy and unapologetically pursuing that.

Find what things you can that bring you joy and pursue them. Chase that happy. It won’t fix everything but in an unfair world you’ve got to take what you can get with two hands and drop whatever doesn’t work for you. If you’re already here and don’t have much of a choice, you might as well enjoy the ride a bit more.

I think life is a scam, actually.