Cognitive Therapist: so you need to work on these exercises…
Patient with ADHD: don’t you get it? If I could do those exercises I wouldn’t fuckin’ need you! Tabernac!This comic written by an early bird person blaming night owls for not being early birds using an owl as the token of knowledge is quite insulting.
You can sleep going to bed early? then enjoy the present life gave you and how much work life is architectured around you and stop preaching to the people that naturally has an internal clock different than yours.
you preachy little shit.
stupid owl of wisdom
If I have to do all those things I don’t want to get my life “under control”, is my life really under my control?
Think about it.
ugh… for how long
I feel seen
but not heard
My wife does all of these but still made the rookie mistake of adding me into the equation.
Checkmate owl
Consistent diet, exercise, and sleep. If you do it to “get in shape” and then go back to your slovenly ways, you might as well just not do it at all.
If you don’t want to do that, don’t whine when you hit 50 and your body falls apart.
Whining is my primary source of cardio
You can whine all you want, it just won’t help a bit
Wise Owl forgot to mention eating healthy.
I think the basic reason people don’t want to do the things that Wise Owl mentioned, going to be early, having a daily routine, and exercising, is two things.
The first reason is framing. What’s exercise and how can you convince yourself to do it? Maybe you don’t like exercising regularly, but you like doing some sport, or you enjoy some other physical activity like dancing. If you don’t like going to the gym, but you like playing a sport, then you can exercise by playing that sport more.
Exercising absolutely sucks if you’re just doing it to exercise. But it might make sense to exercise for some other reason. Like you want to do better at a sport or you want to learn new dance moves.
The second reason people might get into the things Wise Owl said, I think, is if you’re responsible for another human. There’s all sorts of stuff that I would have a hard time doing for myself, but I’d eagerly do so that I don’t disappoint other people. Like, I don’t have kids, but there are a lot of people who have gotten their act together for the sake of their children. I know I was much better about routine and stuff when I was the primary caregiver for my parents.
The first one hit hard. Fuck going for a jog, but give me a ball to chase…
Joke’s on you, dumbass owl, I wake up at 6:30 am, do the same shit every day, exercise regularly and my life is still out of control.
O Wise Owl, if the habits of a lifetime make it difficult to keep to such resolutions, how can I give myself every advantage to be better able to keep to them?
Owl: skill issue tbh, git gud
Take advantage of your weaknesses and find sports that you enjoy doing. Set up positive feedback loops. Will post more later
Or just do what ever you feel like doing without worrying about ‘control’.
Well that escalated.
But I feel very much like humanperson here, esp. panel 3.
