I thought this was going to be when he went off on a rant about if his favorite tshirt suddenly got stretched he'd trash it, and this same episode of adventure time jake talks about his favorite coffee cup ever and then yeets it out the window because an overabundance of sentimental attachment is unhealthy
I'unno, I don't think the guy who said "Sucking at something is the first step to being kinda good at something" would shame someone for being sad at a party.
I also get confused at the types of people that think life is all in the struggle. Most of the time it’s someone who’s biggest struggle was “I had to do schoolwork for a prestigious college I was payed to go to” and not actually living the life of a normal person, so of course they’d think achieving a goal would be boring. Shit, if I achieved all my dreams and goals I’d be happy until I kicked the bucket, what kinda goals do you have that would leave you sad and depressed after completion? Becoming addicted to heroin? Killing your grandma?
honestly thinking about it i feel like theres two types of "life is all in the struggle" theres the type you mentioned, where what they really care about is like, the fact that theyre struggling for something "good" and really its more straightforward about what they think than if they just said "its about success", because to that type of person it feels like the main 'virtue' is like... the fact that what theyre trying to get is Success™, and the fact that they think theyll actually get it [you can tell because a lot of people like this will treat you like shit if you're not "working towards success", but will treat you mostly fine if you seem like youre trying to even if youre not succeeding] ...this kind of person is usually the kind that would break down if they started to think they couldnt achieve whatever they viewed as Good™. i would know, i used to be like that. the second kind of "lifes in the struggle" is..... "imagine sisyphus happy" frequently the kind of person that probably sees whatever goal would be "ideal" as impossible or near-impossible, but has given up on giving up, and decided to say fuck it and try at something anyway - where even if they know theyll never succeed, and theres no objective reason its "good" to do so, theyve decided that the thing theyre trying to do matters to them ...also, i can tell you that if i ended up continuing to do well in school, getting into a fancy college, getting some sort of high paying job... those are the kinda goals that wouldve left me even more fucked up than i am now. the kind of goals where having the end result is great, but you look back on all the things you threw away to get there, all the parts of yourself that got paved over, you look ahead at the fact that your whole reason to exist now is Achieving Success but you dont have anything left to achieve... it kinda breaks you. or at least, it would, if getting there hadnt already done that.
