The subtle art of not giving a f*ck by Marc Manson

 03/21/2024

The subtle art of not giving a f*ck

     Giving a fuck about something has for a long time been considered a bad expression or a bad attitude towards something. There are people who consider that it refers to not caring about anything at all or that you believe that everything is a useless trash. However, not giving a fuck does not mean being indifferent; it means being comfortable with being different. In fact, indifferent people often attempt to be indifferent because in reality they give way too much importance to their problems.  They’re afraid to let anyone get close to them, so they imagine themselves as some special, unique  snowflake who has problems that nobody else would ever understand.

     According to the Marc Manson, indifferent people are afraid of the world and the repercussions of their own choices. That’s why they don’t make any meaningful choices. They hide in a gray, emotionless pit of their own making, self-absorbed and self-pitying, perpetually distracting themselves from this unfortunate thing demanding their time and energy called life. Therefore, it highlies not to worry that much for things that are not under our control or try to avoid them. Instead it encourages to look for a solution and to worry only about what is worth.

    To conclude, the author tries to convey the mindset of worrying only about what is really important in our lives, that might lead us to questioning our priorities and probably we end up concerning less about worthless things. Just in that way,  we might stop giving a fuck about things.