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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • yeah intentionally misunderstanding it of course.

    if anyone’s Uncle does say this I would follow up with something like:

    except it’s not just your phone it’s everything in your life only goes to 6%.

    you have 6% shoes, they hurt they leak but you can’t get better ones

    you have 6% food, you are either hungry or eating something terrible for you or something that tastes terrible all the time (I for example did not realize steak could taste good until I was in my twenties and finally had a job where I could afford a nice dinner)

    you have 6% housing, there are bugs and critters, there are leaks it is too cold or too hot all the time, you always live next to neighbors you aren’t sure about so it’s probably not safe to walk around, your landlord won’t fix anything and you can’t do anything about it

    you have a 6% life most everything in your life cannot get very much better than it is and you don’t have the time the money or the connections to do hardly anything about it



  • 2 I try to live by

    1. start in the way you intend to continue - so don’t just accept something you can’t stand forever as you may not be able to change it. it’s much less work overall to deal with problems upfront and then not have to deal with the little consequences of ignoring them for months/years/etc.

    2. don’t put it down put it away - so many messes are created by setting stuff down for a minute and never coming back until there are 30 more things on top of it and it’s an archeological dig to clean. if it takes less than a minute to put away properly then just do it immediately instead of creating hours of cleaning for you or your partner when you finally can’t stand how cluttered and dirty your place is