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Not Worth the Energy

I recently came across this post and I'll quote it here:

I need a polite and effective way to say "hey your heart is truly in
the right place and your anger is often righteous but I think
sometimes you’re getting recreationally mad about things that are
frankly not worth the amount of energy you’re spending on them, and
every time you do this you're driving yourself slightly more insane
with nothing to show for it," and then I need a way to broadcast that
message through a loudspeaker to roughly 30,000 people at once, and
THEN I need a time machine to send that message to my past self
lol. and maybe a second time machine in case past me tries to be
clever and sabotage the version of me who comes through the first time
machine

It's been capturing too much of my attention. I keep thinking about it. About how much effort I can sometimes put into being annoyed or mad or angry at something that is really just not worth the effort. I wonder if we can name this little path we can ofttimes take in our minds so we may quicker realize the futility of it and let it go.