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yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

How to live in a world that is literally trying to kill you An ongoing essay, written primarily to aid myself

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12/21/2023

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

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0. The context for this essay is the history of PUFAs and rUFAs, asbestos and lead, HFCs and HFCS in our homes, hands, and literal hearts https://t.co/9e7ZLFjlXL

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 2 years ago

this is the kind of shit that makes me feel justified in avoiding "food colouring dyes" and "random processed food-industrial complex chemicals" and seeking "natural ingredients" https://t.co/WIPF2UDIju

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12/21/2023

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

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1. Lots of things in the modern urban environment are trying to kill you. But millennia of evolution of your body are also trying to keep you alive, and they can do a damn fine job Dw too much about it

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12/21/2023

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

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2. Dw too much about it ≠ Don’t worry a lot about it There is a lot to worry about, but there is such a thing as worrying too much

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12/21/2023

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

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3. Climb the worry ladder gracefully The scope of things to worry about will increase with your capacity. The universe will assign you more and more worry But not to worry. You just need to manage the worry right for you https://t.co/zrk4Roxd5l

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• about 2 years ago

day 12 finally cooking with carbon steel pans it continually shocks me how powerful learning things slowly is. i learn a lil more every time there's capacity https://t.co/iPg7yKRuK0

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12/21/2023

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

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4. Living healthy is, like literally every single other difficult project, about managing your psychology You have to do three things show up don’t die don’t quit To do that, manage your psychology https://t.co/dyappuBcUM

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

only three things u gotta do show up don’t die don’t quit the hard part is managing your psychology well enough to continually manage the above https://t.co/BtsA4eNqca

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12/21/2023

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

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5. The way you do that that is chill & worry, ayy lmao https://t.co/64iXQFhnmw

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago

this is the heart of philosophy, all else is commentary 🧐 https://t.co/7uu4B9YhpH

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12/21/2023

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

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6. You’re not immediately going to die. You dont need to immediately cut off the microwave, or switch to homemade bread. That kind of unsustainability is what created the problem, and its not going to get you out, with room for you soul, and ground. This time, they’re coming with

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12/21/2023

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

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7. Some enemies are tough and thick like a weed. Whacking them isn’t enough. Spending 10 years meditating while ruthlessly, quietly cutting some every day is needed Plus this way, you get to meditate in the meantime which is p awesom

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12/21/2023

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

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8. You join the lineage of adults who have ever solved a hard problem ever the day you respect a problem and accepting the time frame ahead https://t.co/Z3s8lpsJab

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• over 3 years ago

the thing to integrate is that the project of taking care of everyone is 1. *longer than your life*

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12/21/2023

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

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9. This lineage loves you (And you love it. It’s a bond tied across time long before you were born. Some would say between clay and water. Some would say between the atoms themselves) https://t.co/1GsAM611Jp

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 3 years ago

this is *actually* about you the story of the world includes you this time https://t.co/1mOWGwp16I

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12/21/2023

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

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10. The world cannot be saved, only helped Welcome, to your battle stations https://t.co/BIfTIOlKPq https://t.co/nJ4BGNJcTF

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 3 years ago

you cannot fucking finish it, and that’s okay you’re going to have to find okayness along the way. it’s not going to be at the end we’re here to help, and it’s okau

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12/21/2023

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

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FIN PRÉAMBULE

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12/21/2023

Defender@DefenderOfBasic• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth This is the very first time I've understood this. "worry, but not too much". It's not because there's just a magic Goldilocks point you'll stagnate at forever. It's because this way you can keep up and grow

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12/21/2023

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @DefenderOfBasic

@DefenderOfBasic im so, so happy. it's been a precious thing to realise for myself

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12/21/2023

Elena Lake 🌿@relic_radiation• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth yeppp. there's a reason my bio has been "in the forest of dangers and wonders" for so long so many dangers out there also so many wonders ayyylmao

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12/21/2023

yatharth ༺༒༻@AskYatharth• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @relic_radiation

@relic_radiation this feels like an accurate understanding of the forest ive long wanted to write an essay titled, "the forest is not the good mother—but it can be"

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12/25/2023