I might not like it, but this is how it is.
I need to start in reality if I want to make significant change.
Stoicism, acceptance, indifference (not apathy)… call it what you will.
Discussion
we all keep growing each day 🌱
I find it helpful to appreciate that life is pretty short and quite soon whatever I do today will be utterly forgotten and meaningless 😀
It's also nice if one thinks, as I do, that when you die you probably have some sort of continuation of experience, and that it's probably enjoyable - possibly extremely so
Alternatively, if you believe there is an afterlife, then everything you do in this life potentially matters.
"potentially" doing a lot of work there!
I think that's just how they get you to comply with stuff
to me, any continuation of experience has to mean a dissociation from the physical world, and entry / return to a more fundamental plane.. ..from which it seems clear to me that the physical realm is transient and unimportant
yeah, i've been getting into this idea of thinking of one's life as a story you are writing, complete with plot twists and quotations and poetry at the top of the chapters