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“…More chose the monthly contract and only went to the gym four times a month. As a result, they paid 70 percent more per visit than they would have under the plan they rejected. Why? Because people are too optimistic that they can become gym rats, which would make the monthly package “worth it.” Silly them. You might call this behavior “laziness.” Economists prefer “hyperbolic discounting.” This is the theory that we pay more attention to our short-term well-being and “discount” rewards that might come further down the road.” -Derek Thompson Sh*t Nobody Says (by dontbethatguyfilms) “Touch the screen.” Vermin Supreme At the Lesser-Known Democratic Candidates Presidential Forum. Forget The Phony, Vote For The Pony 
It is not happy people who are thankful; it is thankful people who are happy. (Source: whereisthecoool, via elllenarrr) My Drunk Kitchen Ep. 3: “Omelette You Finish” (by MyHarto) “I list all these, but the books are not why I shuffle from one room to the other. I make the trek because the solace I find in the library, ironically, is in the flat-screen with cable that is mounted on the wall between the walls of books and opposite the couch where I sprawl among the pillows; the solace of my bedroom is, simply, my bed. Despite being surrounded on all sides—as if held hostage—by books, the last thing I’ve wanted to do for the past weeks (months, even, if I’m honest) is read. This is not a confession, just a fact: I can’t read. Or read, at least, with any pretense of endurance.” - Nell Boeschenstein “The only way for me to do this without ending up in an existential tailspin is to not take it too seriously. If low expectations can elevate so-so movies, perhaps they can also upgrade one’s dating life from a graveyard to at least a fancy graveyard with picturesque views and atmosphere and motorized carts for the infirm.” -Joe Berkowitz and Joanna Neborsky “What my mother could envision was a future in which I made my own choices. I don’t think either of us could have predicted what happens when you multiply that sense of agency by an entire generation. But what transpired next lay well beyond the powers of everybody’s imagination: as women have climbed ever higher, men have been falling behind. We’ve arrived at the top of the staircase, finally ready to start our lives, only to discover a cavernous room at the tail end of a party, most of the men gone already, some having never shown up—and those who remain are leering by the cheese table, or are, you know, the ones you don’t want to go out with.” -Kate Bolick
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