Life is a journey in which you learn how to make the best of everything you are, and everything you have, and everything you went through.Īnd along the way, it’s perfectly understandable to make mistakes and to miss certain opportunities. You can learn to recognize the good things you have, you can learn to relinquish your sense of responsibility from feeling pain, you can find out what is your purpose and hunt it down… The list goes on. Your job is to make sure that you are creating as many opportunities to feel happy as possible. Your job is not to prevent you or your loved ones from feeling pain completely. But you can control your own actions and thoughts.Įven if you live in a bubble… eventually, you are going to run out of air. You cannot control the world or the people you meet. Because they will happen no matter what you do. But don’t be afraid to miss, or to have things happen to you. Sure, plan your actions and don’t go ahead jumping from cliffs. Your job is not to prevent pain from happening. And it should be something you take upon yourself.Ĭonscious and voluntary responsibility is one of the greatest tools we have to feel purposeful, and happy.įind out what is it that you want from life, accept it, and go catch it. Instead, you should have something to run towards. Often because they don’t care about their responsibility in the first place.Īvoiding pain isn’t a responsibility, it’s fear.
One reason people procrastinate so much is that they prefer to avoid responsibility. Your journey will be a lot smoother if, instead of running away from something, you run towards something.Īvoidance is never as interesting as having a goal. Relinquish your responsibility from feeling pain, and accept the responsibility for creating happiness Life doesn’t resume itself to pain, and it’s your job to make sure of that. It might be terrible, intense, and even frequent. Instead of pretending it doesn’t exist, learn to live with it. If you realize that, you will be able to quit avoiding pain so much. You can plan your actions, you can think and study a lot before making a decision. You can be careful, you can try and be safe. You cannot shield yourself completely from harm.
Pain will follow you for the rest of your life. Making your way to work, just like you do every day, an irresponsible drunk drives his car over you. It just happens that one of your friends was embezzling the company’s funds. Together with your friends, you decide to form a business together and bring yourself meaning and clarity to others. The situation makes you feel like you’ve been deceived. The experiences you have had feel unreal. You treat your spouse with love and affection. You are healthy, you have a great relationship, you have friends, you feel satisfied with your purpose. Pain is everywhere, and that cannot be changed And that’s the truth of it.īut life isn’t just painful, there’s a lot more to it as well.
#Painful life full
Life is full of ups and downs, it’s true, but the downs often feel a lot more frequent and more powerful than the ups, depending on how you face things.Īnd no matter how much effort you put on your journey, no matter how dedicated you are, and no matter how careful you might act, you are still going to have to face lows. I’m not gonna bullshit you and tell you that life is full of color, and magic, and pleasure, and pretty things, with happy endings and that everything fixes itself.