We pretty much always need an outside force to get us to stop.
I stop drinking, eating junk and smoking almost every Monday.
Buddhists call this samsara or samskara. Our habits (whether good or bad) are the most difficult thing to break and breaking these cycles is also the most important skill to acquire
@Darcranium @Krauerking@lemy.lol the two are different words, LOL
The terms are used almost interchangeably in Hindi. And used to describe something similar in Buddhism. I wonder why there’s so much overlap
@Darcranium do you know Hindi ?? The fact that you say that the terms are used interchangeably exposes the level of your knowledge of the language. The two words comes from Sanskrit. And even though my mother tongue is not hindi, l’ve used these two words very commonly since my childhood. Samsara in my language means family, but the word originally means the world, which is actually a family like system. Samskara means culture. It could also mean your individual habits and traits.
Saṃsāra is a Sanskrit word that means “wandering” as well as “world,” wherein the term connotes “cyclic change” or, less formally, “running around in circles.” In the context of Indian religions and philosophies, saṃsāra is the concept of all beings experiencing an ongoing cycle of life, death, and rebirth.
In Hindu Philosophy and some Indian religions, samskaras or sanskaras are mental impressions, recollections, or psychological imprints that colour one’s thoughts and actions, and form the basis for the development of karma theory. In Buddhism, the Sanskrit term saṃskāra is used to describe “mental formations,”
Also, starting.
Also, continuing.
I’m tired, boss.
Round out the set with refraining
Yeah, as I kept showering that though came up too. We struggle with physics, we need help getting moving and then stopping again. We are a bunch of bouncy balls.
Sunk cost fallacy
Being aware of it can help. Ask yourself. “Cut my losses or risk more with unlikely win?”.
So, how long have you been in the shower? Have you left yet?
Oh shoot. I knew I forgot to do something
Equally true of every animal? Ever try to get a mole to stop digging?
Yeah, true. Or even worse, stopping a dog from eating something it shouldn’t?
Can’t stop, won’t stop baby.
Never stop never stopping!
Having seen how a ton of folks in my city drive, can confirm.
Walking to the supermarket today I saw a guy on a scooter who was using the soles of his flip-flops as brakes … perhaps like him, they have no brakes?
LOL
Newton’s first law applies to virtually any dynamic system, including the actions and thoughts of organisms.
I see this every day. I try to stop and just take in the moment. But I can’t. I can’t stop. I can’t take in the moment. And it was only for a moment, now it’s gone. And now that it’s gone, I can’t stop thinking about it. I try to stop. I can’t stop stopping. But I also can’t not stop stopping. It’s my struggle. It’s what I struggle with the most. Stopping.
You also started thinking about it, you started trying, and with some practice you’ll learn how to stop when you need to. It’s not about stopping, it’s about… a bunch of complex stuff because nothing in our brains has a simple straightforward explanation as much as we like to pretend it does.
god damn! that’s a really nice grill…
I can’t stop stopping. Help me!
Never stop never stopping.
As a kid my dad had a game called gnome, where you controlled a mech. You could spam the stop button for the robot lady voice to say stop stop stop stop stop stopping.
Respect goes a long way. Too many people try to “help” people stop something without respecting or understanding them. And that makes wars.
Respect and TCB.
I dunno, inner forces are extremely effective. Depression is even harder to overcome than inertia.
“stop being happy!” -depression
Mmm I would say that depression by nature is a suppressed ability to gain inertia. It makes it hard to get the dopamine response started to a point where you get the feedback loop.
And also to an extreme it comes from a place of not being able to imagine stopping the life you live so it is easier to imagine a stop of everything.
Until you realise it only takes one decision and we have stopped doing everything we wanted to stop.
