Are you going to make today any
different? Different is unknown, and the unknown is scary. A known
punishing characteristic or assumed characteristic is less scary to
one than the foreign unknown.
Are you going to make today any
different? Different is unknown, and the unknown is scary. A known
punishing characteristic or assumed characteristic is less scary to
one than the foreign unknown.
This influences your every day decision
making:
If you soul search and decide if the punishing
characteristics of your current routine are overwhelming then you are
faced with the choice to say "no more second chances."
If life is a
comedy, and in comedy we use the phrase “yes, and” then we are
also encouraged by that undercurrent. And anyone whose ever laughed
at a joke is included in that definition – this means you too, Dennis. (I don't know a Dennis)
However if we are both aware of the painful known
characteristics but also are unable to make ideal changes then we may be faced with an episode of depression and/or anxiety. We may be ourselves unable, or
unable to get to the “core ideal” which is only attainable in our
minds. Reality can get and does get in the way of this ideal and
veils it from our true understanding.
Ideals and characteristics of
our lives are also heavily influenced by our selfish ideals but also our
collective (and therefore impossible to define) goals. Collective
goals can be extremely difficult to attain if they are not socially
or economically definable, realistic, and lucrative.
To that end, maybe one selfish
mitigation measure is get an idol to aspire to, or otherwise find
your inspiration ~ though idols and people are defined by action, so it may
be easier to improve your behavior by mirroring another.
Moreover, life is an unknown - figure out how define it for yourself