People are so used to striving and achieving things that they don’t realize its causing them emotional turmoil. People are so attached to achieving things, doing things and being things. I need to finish off my project… I need to be the top of the class… I need to get a girl… I need to get laid…
They don’t realize that this very desire… This very need… This very goal… is the source of all their pain and unhappiness. If they had just realized that when they fufill desire x it will not make them happy forever. That there is nothing out there in any part of the world that make them satisfied forever. For once the desire is fulfilled there will be more desires following. Essentially an endless chase of things until their entire lives until they die.
Man is truly bound by a life of misery and pain if they live this way. Its actually ridiculous how many problems the mind makes out of nothing. It’s such a powerful tool but the source of all the problems. Reality just happens. Reality do not happen to us. What anyone on this planet does to us doesn’t harm us. Its our interpretation of events which destroy us.
Since everyday will be the same until I die, I will take action in changing my situation because I am responsible. I am responsible for every thought, action and response. The past doesn’t exist and can’t change. I can only learn from the past and move forward. There is no future. I could be hit by a bus and all my future plans in my head are gone to dust. Wasting precious mental energy on a situation which may or may not happen.
HH