I believe I can solve most of America’s problems with this simple life hack. It’s called “minding yo’ own damn business.” Sometimes, I refer to this as “active belief.”
I did a little bit of research on this phrase, “Active Belief”. Most of the time, it’s applied to religion or politics, but I think we could employ it in a larger scale and for more systems we engage in.
Let me lay it out for you.
Someone approaches you and tells you about how they believe in pet resurrection. Dogs, cats, gerbils, snakes, parakeets, and various mammals and rodentia from loving, grieving households roam the afterlife, speaking in grunts or howls and invading this person’s nightly dreamscape to relay personal messages to their miserable owners. Then they step back and wait for your response.
You have three choices.
- Agree with this person, and tell them about your recurring nightmare where the late Gary Barkson puts his paws on your lap and begs for world peace.
- Disagree with this person, explain that his, your’s, and everyone’s dead pets will remain lost in the abyss forever, and if they should ever return to this living world, you will personally curbstomp their cute little zombie faces.
- You could not care less.
Seriously. It’s a choice. You can choose not to care. You have the ability to decide that, you know what, their opinions and beliefs have nothing to do with your life! You can…
Okay, while writing this, I realized that there’s a whole group of people who would submit that the choices and beliefs of a large-enough crowd can negatively impact their own life (i.e., gun support, religious laws, human rights, etc.). And I suppose those people have a pretty fantastic argument. I will have to think about this some more. Hold on…
I might have to write another post about this. Hmm.
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