Important Nonetheless

After many years working towards the best way of thinking, the clearest mind, I have come to find that you must train your mind, get to work, ask more for yourself, dream bigger and accept that your being is prone to suffering. Whether that is innate, learned, nature, nurture, whatever, it doesn't matter.

What matters is your salvation. Your relinquishing of the demons upon your shoulder. To do this, you must combat them with love. How to do this more practically, is to fill your mind with thoughts that are pure and of a loving nature.

We are all actors in the game of life and all have a role to play in working towards the common good, the better world, inside and out. We were made for each other and what hurts the bee hurts the hive. If you cannot see this connection look closer, listen better, tune the fuck in. It is everywhere around you, it is you, and although it is often very hard to believe, you have an important role to play here.

Your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your destiny. Your destiny is passed on to your children. Your destiny ripples out across the sands of time and carries alongside it the consequences of your belief. This transfers through you, to your children, and your children's children. It is paramount that you create the right environment for thought.

Recite the passage below every morning when you wake up. Remind yourself each day, as if starting a new war without any prior knowledge, so that you may satiate the beast of suffering. Do this every day and eventually, the words will become your rhetoric and you will become the words.

Be understanding of what truly brings you happiness. Do not cloud or muddy your pool with too many things at once. Stay present and alert but be soft and agile. Train your mind to allow strength of soul, stay open to possibilities, show love graciously, be compassionate to others, count your blessings daily and move forward with gratitude. Open your arms and your house to others and surrender. Do not wish for circumstances to be any different than they are right now in this present moment, your place on the path is purposeful, embrace it and love it. Hold a strong moral compass, let it guide you, close your eyes, go into the darkness inside and fight your own demons before anything external. Choose peace over war but if you find war on your doorstep do not turn a blind eye, strike it down where it stands. Understand other peoples perspectives, stand in their shoes, show humility. Work towards being a better friend to yourself than you were yesterday. Choose to sacrifice for your loved ones, laugh often, smile even more, accept your losses with dignity and respect. Learn from your mistakes and others, choose what you value, and choose wisely, what you aim your focus at stares back at you. Forgive quickly. Share food with others. Make people laugh or at least be fun to be around. And remember, you and everyone you know will soon die, everything; your time here, relationships, successes, failures, memories. Soon, it will all be turned to ash and be long forgotten. Our time here is small, too small to understand the grandness of it all, but, important nonetheless. Care for your neighbors. Ask for your best self to be present every day. Enjoy yourself, in love, pain, anger, peace, in every moment. And try to do good, each and every time you get the opportunity. Amor Fati.