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“Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom.”
Takeda Shingen
“I lost myself trying to please everyone else. Now I’m losing everyone while I’m finding myself.”
— Unknown
this blog is changing...
As I've fallen deeper into the rabbit hole of the meaning of life itself, I've begun to realize that life isn't about finding a meaning or discovering a purpose at all. It's about taking the things we've gone through - our joys, our sufferings, our curiosities - and making use of them by contributing to a greater purpose outside ourselves. In essence the meaning of life is to find something we connect with and to give ourselves a function within that space. The deeper reason for life is to give it a meaning through the purpose we give ourselves.
How are we supposed to do that though, while still feeling like shit? Kinda hard to contribute to the world around you when you currently feel like a halfway braindead shell of person...
So I think the solution is self-care, first. Focusing my energy on self-care and personal development just within the past few years alone has changed everything for me... and I think it can change the world. Literally the only way to change the world is if every human chooses to go within themselves and change the things that are causing them to live out of harmony with their environment (other humans, the earth, etc.) It's starts within ourselves first. It's not only the responsible thing to do (because a better world is everyone functioning at their best) but imagine how much better our ability to deal with life would be overall if we chose to take the one thing within our control and improve upon it until the external factor(s) causing us pain were no longer an issue… No longer an issue because WE have changed. It's possible to transcend suffering through focusing on things like our own health and habits.
I overcame a period of depression through developing my spiritual self, then my relationship with my mind, body, and the outside world followed. I would say I'm a more positive person now. It took me to care more and to love myself. It sounds cliche, but it took me to love myself more and to realize that despite what I've done or gone through in the past I'm still so deserving of a good life.
I want to see how far I can go with this... how much better life can get if I focus more energy on self-improving than on trying to fix things in the external world that society says are broken. Not that we shouldn't work together to solve problems, but what if we worked on fixing ourselves first?
I'm all about personal development and self-care now. So if you're here for that, lets connect ✌🏽
Life is too much sometimes.
It's appalling how the world expects you to fight demons, heal from trauma, find your life purpose, be nice to people, pay bills, and still show up to work on time. As if getting out of bed in the morning wasn’t hard enough.
Meanwhile, the people who seem like they have it all together aren’t necessarily happy. They have to do so much to maintain the illusion of togetherness that it takes away from the simple joy of just being.
Life can be a lot. So to "have an attitude" about it is normal. To not always be happy is a given. Some days you might only be in the general ballpark area of happiness. Other days you might be far from it. There is an ebb and flow to emotions and existence that can’t be controlled. And outside circumstances that aren’t always preferable. We live through it. We ride the waves from moment to moment, no matter where they may take us. Regardless of where you may find yourself today, your current state of being is valid.
There is no “should be this or that”. It is what it is. You are what you are, dealing with what you’re dealing with how you’re dealing with it. That’s your truth. Allow yourself to be.
art.
check yo' self.
Life sucks sometimes but accountability is so important. I may not have chosen every circumstance I found myself in through life, but its my responsibility to hold myself accountable for the only thing within my control which is my attitude - or how I perceive a situation - and my actions - how I deal with the situation. Every outcome stems from those two things. Life really is what you make it. Everything within my realm can be used as a tool to get me closer to my desire if I allow it to.. but it's up to me to choose my time and resources wisely. That's taking responsibility for self.. because how I respond to situations doesn't belong to any one else.
I have to check myself when I'm complaining. I have to remember I play a part.
Attitudes affect actions. Actions affect results.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. — Erich Fromm
You are the sum of the things you expose yourself to.
Some people will put a mask on their narcissism and call it self-love.
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3:18am
AT 27 WE SELF-DESTRUCT 
all the “troubled” ones who never hid their sadness instead used it as an agent for change. sometimes its heartbreak with which we can most relate. and tragedy is our gift and ultimate demise. human fragility our ultimate fate. pain 
too much to bare 
too much to… 
worry care
we have shared with the world 
what we needed to share.
at 27 we self-destruct.
should humans stop procreating?
“Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter. So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive. But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun. - Ecclesiastes 4:1”
Last week I discovered the term “anti-natalism”. As you may have been able to guess, anti-natalists are against natalism - giving birth, procreation, or otherwise the continuation of life on this planet. They believe birthing children into an inherently flawed world is ethically wrong..environmentally irresponsible, even.. and in a way I don’t blame them. The fact that a set of humans can assume the responsibility of creating and then birthing another human into the world without its consent, exposing it to a lifetime of danger and suffering doesn’t exactly seem fair to me. No one ever asks a child whether or not they want to be born. Their souls are brought to earth against their will and are then expected to just deal with the circumstances they’ve been given.
We are all fighting for our lives here, until our inevitable death.
Parents selfishly procreate with regard to only their own self-interest. Because, lets face it, even the most well-intentioned parents may be unknowingly nurturing serial killer, rapist, mass murderer, pedophilic sociopath spawn from within the womb. How a child perceives the world on its own and what it then does with this perception out in the world is always a mystery until AFTER the child is born. So having children is a risk…always a risk.Â
Take Ted Bundy, for instance, who had a relatively normal childhood and even claimed to be treated very well by his parents. He would later grow up to be truly horrendous - kidnapping, raping, and murdering at least 30 women all before the age of 43. There are many others out there, just like Ted Bundy; and many more waiting to be born...
Every year, thousands of kids end up in foster care because their parents can’t take care of them. Thousands more go hungry and get sick. The fact that a child will be bullied and experience emotional abuse at some point is inevitable. And it’s all their parent’s fault. There are dangers in this world that no amount of sheltering will protect their children from; suffering is just a consequence of a child being born. What if we could spare any more lives from experiencing that same fate by just not having children?
We’ve been warned for years that the world is becoming overpopulated. Whether that’s true or not is consistently up for debate; but there’s no denying the human race’s impact on the earth has not always been a fruitful one. In fact, we are the ones destroying the world and each other while we’re at it. We are the very monsters that we assume only exist in works of fiction and fantasy. Yes, there is plenty of good we have done since being given the responsibility of populating the earth. But what if populating the earth is the very thing that is destroying us? This is the question that anti-natalism postulates and concludes that life is pointless and there’s no real reason to procreate. That life should end with us and it shouldn’t be an aspiration while living to continue it. The only real way to achieve world peace is to ultimately stop creating human beings. And it is when, and only when, humans cease to exist that world peace will truly be achieved.Â
How’s that as food for thought?
Throughout my life this notion of anti-natalism and wishing I’d never been born has been a recurring theme. Unhealed trauma will do that to a person. I’ve had moments where I thought the wounds being inflicted upon me were intentional by some unseen force and that all of life was just a sick game where I was at the mercy of a sadistic god that hates me.Â
Viewing the world through that type of lens, why would I want to bring more children here? What the earth really needs is to be destroyed, so pressing that red button right now would be doing all of us a favor. I would be lying if I said I didn’t have fantasies of being the one to smash it. I’m human; and at the core of every human is a shadow side with which we coexist.
So, why are people still having children? Are the ones having them oblivious to the fact that they’re contributing to world suffering? Or have they realized something anti-natalists haven’t?
As much as we’d like to, we can’t remove suffering from the world ourselves. Though we may try, it’s impossible. As much as we hate to accept it.. life is suffering, and perhaps people having babies have learned to accept something Buddha discovered along time ago.
“Life is suffering.”
There’s no escaping it.
But there are ways to cope.
For some, having children brings them the hope that they may be able to find a little joy in living…because life is short, and is suffering, but joy can be found in things as typical as having a child. For some, having children takes the focus off themselves and their own suffering and inspires them try and make life better for someone else. While still arguably a selfish act, it’s a good deed nonetheless. What can we do? We were given these bodies…are we not supposed to use them? We’ll never be able to control all the unpleasant experiences waiting to happen to our kids, but we can at least TRY to give them a good life and help guide them along with what we know. As with most things in life, we can only do our best… and isn’t that all God should be expecting of us anyway? We’re only human.
One of the core and founding components of the bible was that Jesus was born and gave hope to all humanity. Born of another human into a flesh and blood body made him a mortal being, susceptible to all the things we’re susceptible to. But yet, it was His destiny to become Jesus. And has since been the light and life-giving figure we know today. What if Jesus had never been born?
He was born, however, to save humans…aaand if there were no humans we wouldn’t need saving now would we?
But the fact of the matter is that there ARE humans. And there are some humans who are born to leave a legacy behind.Â
There are two types of people: those that save and those that need saving…. maybe you’re one of them? And maybe, just maybe, that’s the purpose of being given life.
The path of least resistance is often not the path of honor.
Unknown
We do our best with the knowledge we’ve been given at this particular moment in time. So we can’t blame ourselves for making a mistake if we didn’t know any better to begin with. When you know better, you do better. Practice forgiveness.
Unknown
Do you believe in reincarnation?
Where do we even come from anyway?
never get too attached