Kenny Rieley
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The Art of Giving Up
That long, winding, uphill climb we all feel as just part of our life’s journey — to become a better person. You want to somehow cast out the darker aspects of your very nature, to rid yourself of all the nasty human things that you find unbearable. Why are so many of us climbing and struggling, stumbling and falling only to pick ourselves back up and continue our futile quest to venture outwards, further and further away from the treasure we hope to find? Even the most serene, joyous, and stable people have that little voice in the back of their minds saying that something isn’t quite right – "there’s something wrong with you." So you must put yourself through the most arduous trials of self-improvement to become this future idealised self before you can be happy. You hurt, and you don’t want to hurt. So you’ll do everything in your power to avoid the pains and therefore the pleasures of life. And as soon as you do that, you’ve abandoned yourself. You’ve abandoned the self that you set out looking for in the first place, forever moving away from who you really are because you think the person you were taught to be, the person people and society tell you to be actually exists.
By Kenny Rieley7 years ago in Longevity