Study yourself. Your thought patterns. Behavior. Habits. Compulsions. Anxieties. Insecurities. Addictions. These are the very things standing between you and the life you actually want to live. Sit with them. Once you face them, the unconscious becomes conscious. And when you finally understand what they are and how they control you, you awaken. You become... unstoppable.
when dostoevsky said ‘i want to talk about everything with atleast one person the way i talk about things with myself’ and (as if almost conversely) when clarice lispector said ‘it is inside myself that i must create someone who will understand’
Just saw an Instagram reel that said:
“At some point you become the age that your parents were in your childhood memories, only you don’t feel like an adult, and you realize your parents were still just kids trying to figure it out too”
And that shit just fucked me up.
"The hardest truth is that your greatest work may be seen by no one, and yet you must do it anyway for the one who watches is you."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
People do not do wrong to you. They do what they think is right for themselves. Their betrayal. Their selfishness. Their cruelty. It's not about you. It's about their own fear. Their insecurities. Their emptiness. See this, and you'll be free. You'll be happier.
You'll regret it if you get married, you'll regret it if you don't get married. You'll regret it if you have kids and you'll regret it if you don't. Kierkegaard said this 200 years ago as follows - whatever you choose, you'll regret it, because the problem isn't in your choices, it's in romanticizing your life. A person always finds an untravelled path alluring and mysterious. That's why the issue isn't making the right choice. It's choosing and deciding which regret you'll live with. In life, we must choose our regret.