Greek food is tasty as fuck and healthy too. Good call, OP.
I've unironically started looking at my body as a temple. Seriously, it's the only thing I can be sure that I'll have until I die, and even then not necessarily all of it. And exercise feels fucking good. You can get high for some time and effort. Trying different foods, mixing and matching to find healthy stuff has opened me up to foods I probably wouldn't have otherwise tried and been learning some cooking. I've been experimenting with diets and will probably settle into an "ideal" groove eventually, but for now I'm happy to keep trying new things. It's also fucking awesome to see the fat disappearing from my body and my muslces growing and strengthening.
TL;DR Health is important and rewarding.
Also fuck religion for teaching people to ignore what they have and look forward to what they'll never get.
On the bad side, I have trouble relating to people because almost everyone is irrational about absolutely everything (especially the important things). There's so much conceptual space to explore, even in mundane matters, but it seems like 99% of people are fucking terrified of venturing outside of their mental comfort zone. Often it's about the most benign shit too, but they've gone and attached some of their self-worth to every arbitrary opinion so it's basically impossible to have any kind of productive or meaningful back-and-forth. I find I can relate to autistic people more often than "normal" people now, even though I'm quite low on "aspie" traits.
TL;DR It's lonely at the top of the mountain. :(
On the really good side, not being religious has opened me up to self-examination
based on science. I've been working through my own psychological shit for years since. There's lots of bullshit to dig through because my religiosity was based on a dependence on authority instilled by my parents that also caused me to rationalize natural thoughts and behaviors as disobedience, rebellion, etc. It's kind of scary how hard it is to un-learn being an asshole and how easy it is to learn it. One thing I've picked up is a good way to deal with motivation. I've taken the concept of reincarnation and applied it to daily life. I always thought of myself as my body's consciousness, meaning I'm only as old as the time I've been awake, and I die when I go to sleep. In that sense, I get reincarnated
every day. When I get up I try to think "How will I make the most of this life, so my next reincarnation will be better?" I've never read Eastern religious literature, but I wonder if this is what some people meant by reincarnation.
TL;DR Mental health is also important and you have to be open minded to find new ideas and rational to pick the good ones.
>>5279Fuckin' A. Never a better time in history for that shit. Have a link you might like. I'm talking the comments, not the link.
https://www.
reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/2od0t0/til_about_khan_academy_a_free_way_to_learn_almost/
>>5285The one thing I miss about college was the abundance of good restaurants within walking distance of campus.
>>5354Cheat days are good for your sanity. Keep it up.
Fuck yeah for not believing in irrational bullshit.