The worst part is, you can't even sleep through most of it. Any lucid self-training will have no effect, as without feedback from the body, you could be teaching yourself skills that don't work with your body. Ever just know how to fly in dreams, without fail, and it seems to be consistent...
Given the way that most people act in these stories, the MCs kind of have to be ruthless. I mean, if almost everybody you didn't directly help out of the blue was siccing mobs of thugs on you and half-assedly trying to murder you all the time, you'd be in serious trouble.
Or like in a machine, a tough part just moves stress and damage to weaker parts. That body armor could be used as a weapon against the wearer just by striking it, like how a bulletproof vest doesn't prevent you from getting broken ribs.
The medicinal effects of the Whopper are at their strongest when the patient resists the powerful urge to chew it, and instead exercises the discipline to slowly dissolve the chocolate coating, and the malted milk ball within.
Responsibility for another's life is a whole other kind of motivation that surpasses a great many obstacles. Unless you're a terrible person to the core. The biggest problem with depression isn't that it makes you feel terrible for no reason, it's that it robs you of the ability to feel pleasure...
People work in the service industry because they can't afford to move 100 miles for a job at a factory that will lay them off after 80 days, or won't hire them in the first place because they don't already have 10 years of experience in a field that has only existed for 4 years.
Everybody get up, it's time to slam now.
We got a real jam going down.
Welcome to the Space Jam.
Here's your chance, do your dance, at the Space Jam.
Alright...
COME ON AND SLAM, AND WELCOME TO THE JAM!
COME ON AND SLAM, IF... YOU WANNA' JAM!