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jimmysong 2y ago

It's easy to point at celebrities and be smug about your own moral superiority. I suspect that most news is secretly this, a way to sate your envy by making you feel better than them.

This is a trap. Yes, these people are flawed, but it's also a distraction because in many ways, it's none of your business. The thing you need to work on is you and if you're secretly enjoying the schadenfreude, you're not growing.

It's for this reason that I'm pretty suspicious of gossip. It's really a weapon in the status game that everyone is constantly engaging in, but denies caring about. You can rationalize it however you want, but in the end, it distracts you.

Stay in your own circle.

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Jefri Satoshi ⚑ 2y ago

πŸ”— Stay on our chain circle πŸ”—

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HODL 2y ago

This is so true. It reminds me of this famous quote from teddy Roosevelt.

β€œIt is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

β€”Theodore Roosevelt

Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910