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This Artist Perfectly Portrays The Battle Between Our Emotions And Intellect With His 30 Comics (New Pics)
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Have you ever wondered what your heart or brain would say if they could talk? What about your stomach or liver? Would they complain about your eating habits? Or that you don't sleep enough? Or perhaps they would be thankful for how you take care of them? Who guides your life more often - your heart or brain?
Comics artist Nick Seluk, also known as The Awkward Yeti, created illustrations showing exactly that. The artist brings human organs to life and portrays their adventures. He mainly focuses on the heart and the brain and the battle they have between themselves. One is cold and logical, the other warm and free-spirited.
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago (edited)
Fear of failure is not a burden, it is the rope that prevents you from falling and... like... you know... dying in a very gooey way.
Casey Burns 4 years ago
So true! I thought the top left panel had a fish at first not a butterfly! lol
On the artist's website, it says: "The Awkward Yeti and all of its work are authored and illustrated by cartoonist Nick Seluk. It was his dream since he was a kid to be funny, and someday he hopes to be. His New York Times Bestselling series Heart and Brain has brought popularity to the Awkward Yeti on social media, and he now copes with the pressure of trying to entertain millions of fans online.
In 2018, his first children’s book was published by Scholastic, titled The Sun is Kind of a Big Deal, the first in a 3-book series. You can find it in book stores and Scholastic fairs in schools.
Nick lives in Michigan, which has super big lakes surrounding it. He enjoys thinking about running, not actually running, and mostly doing nothing."
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Jaded Queen 4 years ago (edited)
It's just a all consuming uncontrollable thirst for... Books. I just can't help it. It's my preciousssss. (Don't look at me like that)
Ashbug 4 years ago
Same here if loving books is wrong I don't want to be right
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
I love reading books and always fell asleep while reading and if someone tried to take it from me in my sleep I got really annoyed and I used books like kids sleep with teddybears. I felt safe for some reason
just me 4 years ago
What about books I've read 5 times already and I have to revisit that storyline and/or characters?
Nick told us more about how he got into art: "I have loved drawing comics since I was a kid, especially getting other people to laugh at them. I always naturally went back to comics because it was a medium that worked naturally with my short attention span. The most difficult part is fitting concepts, especially psychological or medical, into just a few comic panels. It requires taking a lot of information or an idea and simplifying it into as universal a language as possible. Heart and Brain are about philosophy, medicine, psychology, decision-making, ambition, and to a large degree mental health."
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"My art style is fairly loose, my writing style is character-driven and introspective. I have been making Awkward Yeti comics for about 9 years, and have no plans to stop. I’m inspired by the idea of being able to translate my thoughts into a tangible medium, rather than letting them get lost in my head. Entertaining others keeps me going."
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
The ability to not be miserable. I know, it sounds crazy. Even in a comic book, it would be too unrealistic.
Purple Panda Rae'n 4 years ago
I would be satisfied with being able to "wake up feeling rested" just ONCE!
Foodie panda 4 years ago (edited)
the ability to change that one stupid thing you did every month
Here's some advice from the artist if you want to create art yourself: "If you want to create art, just do it and don’t be afraid to make mistakes. The best way to improve, and to find your voice, is simply to practice and not give up when it feels difficult, or when you feel that you can’t translate your thoughts into your medium of choice."
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Nick Seluk has been featured on Bored Panda a few times before. If you would like to see his previous work, click here and here. We also have many other comics that you can check out after these, like these funny and dark comics with unexpected endings, or funny comics about food that are full of puns and jokes, or maybe you would be more interested in comics for those with a darker sense of humor?
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Nick tells us more about himself: "I was born and raised in Michigan (in the US) and knew I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was a kid. I spent about 10 years as a graphic designer/art director before finding my place in art. I started posting comics on a Facebook page, which took off after some of them went viral. After introducing Heart and Brain, I was soon able to make a career from my comics by selling merchandise and having my comics published in books and comic sites. With a lot of hard work, I was able to quit my day job, and now I can work on projects that truly interest me."
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Jaded Queen 4 years ago
Yes I don't have time for your postivity. I m to busy being drowned in the timeless ache that is life
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago (edited)
Bad things are always the most important things, because the good ones are just neutral, granted, normal, whereas the bad ones spoil everything else.
What do you think of these comics? Do you think your heart, brain, and other organs can relate? Tell us in the comments down below and don't forget to upvote your favorite ones. Also, go show some love to Nick Seluk on his social media pages if you enjoy what he does, your support means a lot to artists!
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Zedrapazia 4 years ago
It isn't possible to "win" against a virus. Corona will never go away again, it's impossible to get completely rid of it. All we can do is protect ourselves by wearing masks as long as necessary, getting the vaccine if our health allows it, not having a "Covid Party", social distancing and FÜCKING staying at home when getting sick instead of driving to Disneyland with a positive covid test!
Laura Mende (Human) 4 years ago
But the smallpox were wiped out after all, they were "defeated". We won. Already in 1980. But that wasn't a virus, was it? I'm too young to know.
Lori T Wisconsin 4 years ago
Yes smallpox is a virus. It was eliminated by mass vaccination, sometimes forced on stupid people. Those same morons exist today and claim they have a right to spread disease by not wearing a mask and not getting vaccinated. Some people never learn.
Load More Replies... Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
They are scary smart in reality as well and we are sometimes not worth infecting because they know some people can't survive on good luck and extreme stupity for long enough time to be wasted on. We are the most stupid species on this planet and we can't deny it even.
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Jaded Queen 4 years ago
Never brain! U will never convince me to grow up & become a responsible adult. I have heard the stories, of TAXES, & zoom meetings & small talks. U WILL NEVER HAVE ME IN THIS LIFE TIMES
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
A real dominatrixis is a serious fettish for a bunch of people and no masochist understands what the f is wrong with him. You amaze your self in every way imaginable and you will never get it. The biggest mistery in life and you just accept it before your mental health is lost and now you have to look for that s**t with no common sense. Its better just try to think of kittens or something really simple.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Pain is normal. That's what likfe is made of. Pain and disappointment.
TrixicBird(Any pronouns) 4 years ago
I´m in a relationship without sex and we are recently married so...
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
My best moments are when I think I'm like smart and then remember how amazingly stupid I can get and laugh all by myself over my unrealistic option I have in my self and never remember how stupid I am much more of the time and sometimes takes hours to get how you are able to breath without instructions. That's my favourite part, when I remember how blessed I am of knowing how to remember my own address every day😂😂
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
I'm always thinking what I would like to do new for fun and I always end doing the same I'm an history addict and I won't go to rehab to change it. I love knowing about something historic old and just all the knowledge I can get my hands on. I'm absolutely addicted like a full blown long time addict in zero recovery wishing.best addiction in the world and my baby brother is almost as hooked as me so we understand the cravings we get but no-one else understands how dangerous the withdrawals are in our cases. Its scary just thinking about it. My husband understands that we like knowing stuff and all that but that we actually freak out of the thought of no more new stuff to learn ever is like a living nightmare to us siblings. He just shames his head when we describe the fear we would have 😂
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Jackie Porter 4 years ago
Accurate representation of my IBS - OK the person who drew these comics is living in my brain or spying on me. I'm getting paranoid
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
I should be a professor in this ability to be 41 and live in my fantasy world but having a profession and stuff but I am a master of changing things around me so I dont die of boredom I have made it this far and I will make it all the way😂
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
I still remember the pledge of alliegance and the american national anthem... And I am not even an American !
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
I love useless information and think its necessary to live and breath. I cant sleep sometimes because I'm to busy for that kind of crap😂
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v 4 years ago
This one should definitely be leading the pack. All of us, to some degree or another, continuously live our lives in this state. For all the the things we do know there are so many unknowns directly related. The control we feel, to whatever degree we perceive it, is really nothing more than an illusion.
Casey Burns 4 years ago
If I knew what I didn't know then I'd know everything but I don't know what I don't know so enough of nothing is known to me.
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
I make absolutely no sense to my self and I was a very gifted student and didn't need to to do my homework most of the time but I just sometimes need a 20 minute break from myself because I'm a master of being exhausted by my self and can't escape for a second and my poor husband lives with me by his own choice. He's just weird or has a serious lack of the ability to listen to me or he's just has a very bad hearing 😂😂
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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 4 years ago
Aww! This is something I wish I would think about more.
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
Im a very possessive wife and thank god my hubby is fine with my strange thinking because he is the most alpha I have ever met a French foreign legionaire vet and a sailor on 30 days tour fishing worktrips for 20 years and he can be without food for 10 days without thinking about it and can go without sleep in a scary long time and he's a gulf war vet as well and is a seriously well trained in every way imaginable and he still blows my mind after 11 years together and he never shows fear though he maybe is scared but his ability to just overcome everything that is best to overcome is amazing and so he let's me be the rule maker to make me smile. He is so kind to me and patient with my weirdness😂😂💖💖 but he has actually taught me lots of stuff that is brilliant to know in life and death scenarios and all kinds of other stuff. He taught me to protect myself if I ever get attacked and it was easy doing and remembering and is guaranteed to work and I could not believe how easy it was
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Jaded Queen 4 years ago
Dude no! Don't lick the plastic. U r literally drinking molten microplastic. Bitches really do be crazy
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
My ability of changing the reality with made up believe system is amazing 😂
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
I just trick myself to believe it has to be right because I have to many questions about everything I dont know so to not die of overthinking I just assure myself its right and I prefer to be alone when I do that because someone might want to destroy my world by accident and I dont take that chance happening .alone and no questions asked. .😂
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
Every time believing this is the the time and 30 minutes later again this time it will work and just complete lack of thinking about how to not think period. How ever you think you have common sense is amazing fake reality but nice to believe while you are not thinking you even need to think😂😂
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
When I dont have a good idea of some stuff I can not be morexanoying to myself with thinking about how it works thinking and why is it called thinking but not something else and sometimes I'm annoyed by my own shadow. I have a serious issue with thinking about the weirdest thins that are even weird for weirdos. I need stop thinking pills at least twice a day so I dont catch my brain on fire by accident. My poor brave husband is 1🥰😂😂
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
Whats done is done no need for the info and stop talking please😂🥰
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
I think its safe to admit that somehow I am 100 % brain with little capability to know how to use it and still have worries about problems I made up myself incase of shortage of problems in the world😂😂
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
I have these excact lists but I am loosing them all the time without moving sitting still on the sofa. I lost my pack of signs today and a note with important info from my daughter and It is actually not been found yet and I didn't leave my living room. Its like there's a ghost thats making believe I have alzheimers just to laugh at me the whole day. It just vanished without being able to?? I am blown away 😂😂
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Jaded Queen 4 years ago
Oh but I love u dany!! Come with me , we will self destruct forever and ever
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Jaded Queen 4 years ago
Never were a home person. But I m thankful to be away from tham humans!!
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
Its nice to finally know how my fights with my fights and the conflict in my brain look like. now I have one thought less to worry about finally the list went down not to the moon again. One step down is almost like i lost all excess overweight in one day. Wow!!
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Jaded Queen 4 years ago
"I do what must be done"! Ain't no thang cause it's fun. If u try to compromise, I grow thrice of my size. (It's a medical thing)
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
See never crossed my mind either. To easy answer to not be a trick thinking trying to mess with my brain😂😂
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
Im the brain and my best friend has the best quotes I ever heard of in my life she had probably had a fight by phone with her ex mother in law who is f-ed up beyond repair and she was so mad that she told the lady that she was so furious that she could murder her with a toothpick! How long does that take? That what I thaught about and she just said maybe just long enough in one place somewhere a d a toothpick. I dont know she's so saying that I can't think straight so that was a good enough answer for me and is she in a nutshell. Best friends for 27 years now and still the funniest ever 🤣 😂
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
I know one thing but I think something entirely different about the same stuff in my head.
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
My hubby is like that. He counts his long some topics are talked about and I just don't understand why its important not waisting 10 minutes on some thought. I'm like what would you rather spent those precious 10 minutes thinking about. Its the weirdest worry I've ever heard about. And I'm a complete weirdo myself but thoughtsusually take some time but when you use these 10 minutes on this now or in 30 minutes is freaky even for me. Its like the car broke down in the desert. It annoys him some times with our a serious reason because when I ask him he can't say why it is important to count minutes on every thought and bitch about it. A complete weird mistery😂😂 otherwise an extremely logical thinker😂😂💖
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ScarlettofHydraIsland 4 years ago
I’m riiight between hot and medium. I still love my cats and my snek though :)
Cat person 4 years ago
Apperently, I feel nothing! My poor taste buds. Spicy things are just SOOOOO good tho!
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
O hate when songs are making you want to drop dead sometimes just long enough time to hopefully forget the stupid song.
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
How are fixing misery and exercising even related in the first place?
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
Me and my dearest and oldest friend together camping omg the disasters that we were able to create together and what weirdo ideas specifically camping we dont know why and we just stopped think about why 15 years later just guessing with no reasons to why. Never a kind of maybe a reason but no. Never so I'm gonna ask her go camping together this summer almost 30 years later and maybe we are mature enough now but I highly doubt it 😂😂 itscstill us camping and the best trip s were when we were just me and her. We don't need friends to avoid us after that trip for good m. She speaks without thinking and I totally agree every time even only 26 17 we were like a mess together and the fun we have. Once in the middle of winter we put salsa music on and danced like idiots and her phone rang and it was a friend of ours asking what we were doing and she said we wee un Spain dancing to salsa and when the phonecard ended she realised she forgott to tell him we were just pretending being in Spain
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
Me saying anything to escape boredom all alone with nothing to distract myself with. Me not distracted the time goes backwards to give me plenty of time to pass-out over overwaiting at my own opinion 🙃 🙂
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
Im the brains long lost twin this overthinking obsession is exhausting and unstoppable
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
My daughter followed butterflies all the time. I had to watch her non stop because some butterflies go in the wrong direction and the kid just ran in that way. Forgot about me without hesitation 😂💖
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Jaded Queen 4 years ago
Coffe never causes any of this "classic " effects on me. I drink coffee before sleep. I laugh in your face coffee
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
Me and my hubby making complete sense together and can join forces along our greatness according to us as long as we are alone at home. We support each other sometimes with to much confidence but we always believe it together and then we laugh the whole night thanking the Lord there were no witnesses 😂😂💖💖
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
One of my serious thaught moments just to be anoying to myself omg why do I have to follow the brain when I move? Damn it😂😂
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Lara Verne 4 years ago
This is me. I'm fat, what will people think? Hell, I don't care, it's swimming time! Plus I look great in my swimming suit.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
We don't care about your fat. Just have fun, don't make too much noise, and that's it.
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
My stupid anxiety is super annoying and takes to long time to stop think like a single braincell and think real thoughts just for a minute. I hate it and you never get used to it.
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Maybe they should just lay down on the shore and wait for the sweet embrace of death ?
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
A simple reasonable understanding for the lack of making wrong choices. My husband once was trying to convince me were each direction was in what direction and he's a smart man but man how was it possible to be wrong with all 4 directions in your own hoke? I was speechless and it took a while explaining how super wrong he was and how in your own home? When he realised how wrong he was he laughed so hard and I just joined him. I believe him often without thinking or question him but that was just absurd. I began asking him if he seriously had ever known it or just pretended to and in what direction was our balcony on the sale papers and then I helped him through the process of seing why I had to ask if he really knew what he was talking about at all but out on see for 20 years a professional soldier and he should absolutely have the knowledge he agreed on that it didn't look so true and he was like I know it by heart. yes dear in a minute 😂😂💖💖
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Black Pug Puppy 4 years ago
The cops probably arrested brain for several other accusations as well.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Is "listening to heart's optimistic bullshit" one of them ?
Load More Replies... Patterson Groff 4 years ago
My question is, are they going to cut into this person and arrest the brain?
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Guðrún Sveinsdóttir 4 years ago
41 and haven't had a clue to this day. Sometimes I find it amusing to know absolutely nothing what I'm doing and without a reasonable reason or anything at all. Then I laugh out loud and no one gets the joke no one heard
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Patterson Groff 4 years ago
Welcome to the world of periods. they'll haunt you forever, but ice cream and chocolate always helps.
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
If you do not look like the anatomically correct hearts in medical journals, every other heart insults, rejects and discriminates against you, and you die a lonely, miserable, broke heart.
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Anxious, obsessive, self critical, fearful... So many words just for "healthy".
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Patterson Groff 4 years ago (edited)
We all need some kind people in the world. seriously. our world is so screwed up. I mean, there's gun violence, racism, climate change, global warming, rising sea levels, animals going extinct, etc. I could go on for days! Then there are those kind people who are trying to stop all of this nonsense in our world. So yes, Brain, we need some kind-hearted people in the world. I don't care if you downvote me, it's the truth.
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Black Pug Puppy 4 years ago
I'd be surprised if he wasn't practices his social skills during his alone time
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago (edited)
Buying things is the only way to be happy. That, and substance abuse. Both take money. So money makes you happy.
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Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
I have a crystal skull puzzle I assembled and named Yorick. I like Shakespeare. And skulls.
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Karma twist : tooth gets a hole because of the sugar that ice cream contains.
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
"Positive thinking" is hurting yourself by denying your pain, which creates more pain, etcaetera... That's why positivity is called "toxic".
Patterson Groff 4 years ago
I agree with you, but positivity can distract from your pain.
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
It is so true it deserves to be posted twice. The only way to find joy is by buying it.
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