We pretty much always need an outside force to get us to stop.
I can’t stop stopping. Help me!
Never stop never stopping.
I dunno, inner forces are extremely effective. Depression is even harder to overcome than inertia.
“stop being happy!” -depression
Also, starting.
Yeah, as I kept showering that though came up too. We struggle with physics, we need help getting moving and then stopping again. We are a bunch of bouncy balls.
That’s physically accurate tho. Anything with mass needs external force applied to change their state. Our minds are built of physical matter, so it makes sense they behave like physical matter.
That’s how inertia be. We want to keep things the way they are, unless we have no other choice.
Also, continuing.
I’m tired, boss.
Round out the set with refraining
Equally true of every animal? Ever try to get a mole to stop digging?
Yeah, true. Or even worse, stopping a dog from eating something it shouldn’t?
Respect goes a long way. Too many people try to “help” people stop something without respecting or understanding them. And that makes wars.
Having seen how a ton of folks in my city drive, can confirm.
Newton’s first law applies to virtually any dynamic system, including the actions and thoughts of organisms.
I see this every day. I try to stop and just take in the moment. But I can’t. I can’t stop. I can’t take in the moment. And it was only for a moment, now it’s gone. And now that it’s gone, I can’t stop thinking about it. I try to stop. I can’t stop stopping. But I also can’t not stop stopping. It’s my struggle. It’s what I struggle with the most. Stopping.
Can’t stop, won’t stop baby.
So, how long have you been in the shower? Have you left yet?
Oh shoot. I knew I forgot to do something
Sunk cost fallacy
Being aware of it can help. Ask yourself. “Cut my losses or risk more with unlikely win?”.
Buddhists call this samsara or samskara. Our habits (whether good or bad) are the most difficult thing to break and breaking these cycles is also the most important skill to acquire
@Darcranium @Krauerking@lemy.lol the two are different words, LOL
The terms are used almost interchangeably in Hindi. And used to describe something similar in Buddhism. I wonder why there’s so much overlap
@Darcranium do you know Hindi ?? The fact that you say that the terms are used interchangeably exposes the level of your knowledge of the language. The two words comes from Sanskrit. And even though my mother tongue is not hindi, l’ve used these two words very commonly since my childhood. Samsara in my language means family, but the word originally means the world, which is actually a family like system. Samskara means culture. It could also mean your individual habits and traits.
I stop drinking, eating junk and smoking almost every Monday.
