If you think too highly of yourself, people will check your ego. If you think too little of yourself, people will check your self-deprication. The secret is to think just enough of yourself so people will leave you alone.
Sometimes I worry that the things I've starred will come up in some court case down the road and then I'll have to explain my support for erotic baking videos.
@LoganFive My biggest fear is that I'm going to post something similar to someone else and they're going to be like "You stole my joke! You even starred it!" and I won’t even be able to defend myself by admitting that I rarely actually read posts and only toss around stars to be supportive.
I feel like similar jokes are just bound to happen, especially between people with similar comedic sensibilities. And especially when we use similar setups (e.g., There are two wolves inside you…).
When I was still trying to have a career in comedy, I was at first protective of my ideas until I kept seeing how often other comedy writers would write a joke similarly, or even exactly the same.
And look at how much content gets churned out! I mean it’s all dandelion seeds in the wind. I also get people posting links to their posts saying, “I wrote something similar.” I think I’ve been lucky because they are usually coming from a place of “Great minds think alike.” But if they were upset about it, I would tell them they can have my residuals for the joke.
Just try walking a mile in my shoes first. Also, here, go a mile in my shirt. And a mile in my pants, socks, shoes. Great, you’ve got this. I’m gonna take off now.
What's it called when you are tired of being overwhelmed all the time and tired of everything turning to shit, and tired of people being stupid ,and you finally just wig out over the smallest thing because you just can't take it anymore?
@LoganFive
Sometimes it’s called, get offline and regroup without too much social media and news. We are all just bombarded with disaster after disaster — things we can’t change, things that maybe don’t even directly affect us except in terms of shared human suffering. I don’t think we were meant (as humans) to know every awful thing that happens in the entire world — but it’s brought to us, event by event, courtesy of the internet. Stress is cumulative. We all have our own crap to live with, but now we worry about ALL the world’s crap too. Everything we read or hear about is a crisis, is urgent, and we are completely without power as an individual.
It helps me to back off social media & news & just deal with my own stuff. We only have THIS moment —