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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.