Emma Grey > Recent Status Updates

“You are an animal, and animals have no purpose. Nothing has a purpose, the world simply is.
… it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live. That is all most animals do.”

Oh dear. They got the descriptions of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems around the wrong way.

Found the first section that I’ve disliked – basically it’s about doubling your income by doing things like climbing the corporate ladder or doing extra freelance work on the side and the overall message of the chapter is “if you work hard enough you’ll get where you want to be”. Honestly kind of a slap in the face as someone with chronic illnesses who can only just make it through a standard work week.