Mindsets Are Infectious

11:49 PM

Depending on who's writing we're reading, we can get drawn into their world. I've been reading some pessimistic posts lately, on Reddit and other websites, and they can really bring me down. I'm a very optimistic person, always hopeful, always positive. I know the realities of the world, I was born and raised in a third world country, I've been obese, unemployed, in $30k debt, no friends, no relationships, doing bad in every area of life. I've been fired too, left to rot. I know the worst horrors that occur in the world today, animal agriculture, where it's the accepted norm to torture and kill animals, and it's so normal most people have animal body parts in their plates and fridge without even considering needless the horrors involved. I am vegan so I don't take part in that cruelty.

I don't know why I always bring this up, but I'm doing pretty good in life now. I have great health despite being overweight, I can do 11 pull ups in a row, 41 push ups in a row, I can run a 9 minute mile, I can lift a decent amount of weight, I can kick above my head. I have good friends, I have a great family, I have a great career with my own profitable business, I own my own home. I've been to around 20 countries, I've been rank 1 in several games, I have millions of views on YouTube, have had millions of visitors to my websites, lots of other accomplishments. Obviously it's not correlated, but I argue it probably helped, that pretty much all of those accomplishments were done after I went vegan.

Reading people's negative thoughts and writings, is probably not good for me. Their opinions are probably wrong, and all they are are opinions. I have my own view of the world, and it's lead me down a great and positive path in life. I like reading other people's opinions on topics, but people can be way off. I think my level of understanding of the world is greater than most people's precisely because I read a lot of writings and opinions from many different people.

Medium is probably one of the best sites to read articles. I've learned a lot from people's writings there, but at the same time, they repeat a lot of the same topics, writing about the same exact thing. There's not much new after you've read like 1000 articles, still, there's a unique writing every now and then. I like it when that happens and I read about a concept I have never thought about before.

Anyway, today I just read manga basically. I read manga, and I watched some anime. I also went to the gym and exercised. My parents and I also went to Wal-Mart earlier today.

My dad and I went to WalGreens, and I bought a lot of these sunscreens that were on $1 clearance. What insane prices. I went to WalGreens because I remembered seeing this SPF 30 + Probiotic lotion at the WalGreens in PR, and I went to look for them here. My dad noted that this one sunscreen was on sale for $1, normally $16. WHAT? My mind was blown. There were several sunscreens from several brands that had a $1 clearance on them, when normally they were $15+. WHAT?

I learned that my manga and anime watching, are just coping. I'm procrastinating. There's work I need to do, and I'm not doing them. I haven't even restarted my streaks yet for anything. It's not great what I'm doing now, because I'm just wasting time, time that I'll never get back. I have so much work to do, so I don't know why I'm procrastinating so much.

Anyway, that was my day today.