The present ubiquity of behavioural conditioning by companies upon individuals (e.g. Facebook measuring the microseconds you look at something, building a profile of your psychology, microtransactions, "Freemium" - they hack the way the human brain works, to manipulate people).
The old stand-by song theme of "love is like an addiction".
"Love is easy, whichever way you start" makes me think "it's easy to become used to something, ... and then to love it"; so be careful what direction you start walking in. It's applicable to any time-wasting thing; to becoming involved and attached to people who are bad for you; to allowing yourself to become controlled by things which you start, and they build up and up over time until you need them, when really they are useless and bad for you.
It can even apply to beliefs and ideas. Like, look at some event that happens in your life through a particular lens once (e.g. "no-one will ever love me", "men are all bad people", "this type of parenting style / government / toothbrush / etc. is the best kind of toothbrush for all time", "I am a victim and that other kind of people are oppressors") and then you may be stuck with that lens for the next 40 years, unable to shake it once it took root and got folded into your sense of identity and worldview....
It can even apply to beliefs and ideas. Like, look at some event that happens in your life through a particular lens once (e.g. "no-one will ever love me", "men are all bad people", "this type of parenting style / government / toothbrush / etc. is the best kind of toothbrush for all time", "I am a victim and that other kind of people are oppressors") and then you may be stuck with that lens for the next 40 years, unable to shake it once it took root and got folded into your sense of identity and worldview.
I think it's about:
"Love is easy, whichever way you start" makes me think "it's easy to become used to something, ... and then to love it"; so be careful what direction you start walking in. It's applicable to any time-wasting thing; to becoming involved and attached to people who are bad for you; to allowing yourself to become controlled by things which you start, and they build up and up over time until you need them, when really they are useless and bad for you.
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It can even apply to beliefs and ideas. Like, look at some event that happens in your life through a particular lens once (e.g. "no-one will ever love me", "men are all bad people", "this type of parenting style / government / toothbrush / etc. is the best kind of toothbrush for all time", "I am a victim and that other kind of people are oppressors") and then you may be stuck with that lens for the next 40 years, unable to shake it once it took root and got folded into your sense of identity and worldview....
It can even apply to beliefs and ideas. Like, look at some event that happens in your life through a particular lens once (e.g. "no-one will ever love me", "men are all bad people", "this type of parenting style / government / toothbrush / etc. is the best kind of toothbrush for all time", "I am a victim and that other kind of people are oppressors") and then you may be stuck with that lens for the next 40 years, unable to shake it once it took root and got folded into your sense of identity and worldview.