unsolicited advice

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I'm cleaning up old mail. Two years and a day ago, someone I knew was having trouble getting over a breakup. I sent

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[rmd]

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thanks!

[rmd]

Solid bits of advice, there. And, yeah, years are shorter as you get older. Or something.

[canetoad]

It'll take me twice as long to get over something if I keep telling myself I should be over it already. [...] I've been impressed by the power of affirmations. It really bugs me that they work. It seems so New Age flaketastic. But brains are self-programming. If you tell your brain something over and over, whether that thing is "I am awesome" or "I suck" or "I forgive [offender's name]", you will come over time to believe that thing, and believing it is more likely to make it true than not believing it is.

Thus we can conclude that affirmations must never contain the word "should," even if "should" is true.

[oneagain]

Affirmations. Rituals. Near-death experiences. Yeah.

[minerva42]

Good stuff. Thank you for sharing.