Life is neither beautiful or ugly. It's many things and to many people.

> BBC News has also heard the story of a local police officer who lost six family members - his mother, father, brother, grandmother, wife and one-year-old daughter - in a single Russian strike.

The person breathing harder because of you cancels the one breathing easier.

Emerson was a treasure.

Actually no. Being miserable requires very little to no work at all - stay at bed, east junk food, binge watch porn and you're gonna become miserable with little effort.

Becoming AND staying strong is helluva work, pain, sweat.

Who invented this quote and who upvotes it?

Or maybe, you're going to be so scared and traumatized on the way, that the success won't matter?

Bullshit.

I was sure I can't do plenty of things, but still had to do them and completed them successfully.

The opposite is also true.

So no, total bull.

Don't think about the end. It's all about the road to it, no matter how short it might be.

Botched plastic surgery?

> What's early?

Having kids.

> What's late?

Having kids.

> Compared to who?

To yourself.

Much like many other constructions, determinism also consists of a few separate "layers", or "levels". Hard determinism totally excludes free will as nothing but an illusion. But there's alfo soft determinism that does not exclude free will, merely sees it as influenced by many different factors.

Personally I'm thumbs up for the soft determinism.

The hard, unforgiving approach to "I will spend only x minutes on this" is damn good advice. No, NOT one minute more.

Determinism does not absolve from any responsibility.

It simply suggests that what you find to be responsible for and to what extent is determined.

The "remaking of self" is possible, yes. But for whom, in what way and to what extent is determined.