Alain de Botton – On Pessimism from The School of Life on Vimeo.
Why a lecture on pessimism, when SuperForest is all about positivity? Well, as Alain de Botton explains in his talk, our social and environmental conditioning has taught us that feeling sad is a big no-no. To deny sadness or hard times is to deny life! As I’ve been feeling low myself these past few months, de Botton’s lecture reminded me that a dose of melancholy is perfectly normal, to be expected, and to deny oneself the blues would be as crazy as crying every time it rains.
Sometimes we feel blue and that’s perfectly okay. So let’s welcome the sad times, because without them, how are we to appreciate the rad times?
April
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