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Two fairy tales to make sense of your life… Part 2

To recap part 1 for those who can’t quite remember it. Your life can be seen as an example of two fairy tales. You live it unwittingly, and they act as the script, they act as a cage… Until you see what them for what they are.

In this part I start with how my newfound awareness of MY fairy tales helped me break through and start living a life on my own terms. Then, of course, we’ll look at more fairy tales. After all, fun is good. Continue reading “Two fairy tales to make sense of your life… Part 2”

Let’s dive into the human condition of no self-love

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Depression

Depression is a stuck state. A limbo.

Stuck in all-or-nothing.

Whether it is low grade or higher, it is still depression.

It is not a bad mood, although laughing becomes less joyful and less frequent.

Flailing, like I said in another article is frequent… trying to grab onto some stuff that isn’t going down like everything else.

I have been depressed now for a few weeks now. It became unmistakable yesterday. Continue reading “Let’s dive into the human condition of no self-love”

Humanity has a tendency to use shortcuts to get there faster

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Humanity has a tendency to use shortcuts to get there faster***… Where is there? Nowhere, really, so it is all about the faster, the cheaper, the less effort for humanity. Going nowhere fast.

Was it always so? No.

I have a theory that humanity cycles through phases of being… beingness… that are, maybe the same as the book ‘Pendulum‘ teaches. The book says that the beingness humanity cycles through is the degree to which it is about ‘me’ or it is about ‘us’. Continue reading “Humanity has a tendency to use shortcuts to get there faster”

16 ways you render yourself unlikable, and poor

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16 Reasons Why People Don’t Like You

What can it be that causes you to be less popular than most?

Why do you miss out on invitations and frequently feel like a Billy-No-Mates?

Or do you feel that your career is suffering because you’re alienating superiors and co-workers alike?

Let’s take a look at some possible factors. Continue reading “16 ways you render yourself unlikable, and poor”

You don’t like me? Want only positive guidance?

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I am reading many books, many articles.

They all say that my life could be better, would be better if I just looked at the bright side of things.

But that… looking at only the bright side of things, actually leads to a boring, inauthentic life.

What makes good good is the contrast… No bad? Not looking at it? there suddenly isn’t good either… only boring, dull, dead. And you can’t sleep… Continue reading “You don’t like me? Want only positive guidance?”

The Third Kind of Depression to beat: simple but not easy

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This article, unintentionally, has two parts. They are loosely connected. One part is about hitting bottom, the second part is about getting out of the judgment, getting out of the systemic value paradigm where you have no future.

Depression Is A Sign That You Are Unwilling To Hit Bottom.

Continue reading “The Third Kind of Depression to beat: simple but not easy”

By nature, men are nearly alike ~ Confucius

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By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice/culture, they get to be wide apart. ~ Confucius

or by another great Chinese philosopher, Mengzi:

…if the people ‘are full of food, have warm clothes, and live in comfort but are without instruction, then they come close to being animals‘

Can you, do you ever contemplate what is the measure you could change? Change so you can be a high achiever, a high earner, a popular person, or even just healthier? Continue reading “By nature, men are nearly alike ~ Confucius”

Why those successful people became successful and not you?

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You are Stuck…

Stuck without a solution, stuck in a tight spot, stuck in a relationship, stuck with an irrevocable promise, stuck in a job, stuck behind… Stuck. And stuck is stuck.

This is the landscape of our life. NORMAL.

Whether we verbalize it or not, we feel stuck. life seems to work against us, and we feel we are a poor match to deal with what we need to deal with. Continue reading “Why those successful people became successful and not you?”

Coming Out Of Grief – The Process And the Problem

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This article deals with the stages of healing, healing your grief. Denial, anger, fear, and so on.

The most important distinction I can add is: check your cone of vision. If your cone of vision is narrow, everything is colored or filled with your grief: the context of life becomes your grief, independent of the content of life.

In addition to that, when you are grief stricken, you start interacting with unreality, and avoid reality. Continue reading “Coming Out Of Grief – The Process And the Problem”

Why you may be tired, maybe depressed, maybe just listless

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I have been tracking the mornings when I wake up with this ‘why bother? it is not going to work!’ feeling for a while. I am tired. Even resting doesn’t feel good. There is no future, nothing to look forward to.

The most exciting thing is the first sip of tea. and the only exciting thing is the same. The sip of tea.

One of those mornings was today. Continue reading “Why you may be tired, maybe depressed, maybe just listless”