I didn’t know anyone took trigger warnings seriously. I’m glad I don’t hang out with anyone who does. Trigger warning: The world is a harsh place by default.

I didn’t know anyone took trigger warnings seriously. I’m glad I don’t hang out with anyone who does. Trigger warning: The world is a harsh place by default. Thomas Hobbes said it best when he called life “nasty, brutish, and short”. The first noble truth of Buddhism is “Life is suffering”. The solution is to try to make things better, not to deny reality and act like a two-year old rocking back and forth telling yourself everything is hunky dory.