that's what I keep saying. watch Fight Club. watch James Bond. watch Into the Wild. you'll start acting like the main character and over time adapt certain traits as your own. you're brainwashing yourself for a better life. use movies, but use them delicately.
The older I get the more I can see how intentional joy is. It’s so easy to be a bitter negative Nelly, it takes courage and 24/7 effort to choose happiness. To choose love and light.
There’s a Japanese saying:
“If you feel like you’re losing everything, remember, trees lose their leaves every year, yet they still stand tall and wait for better days to come.”
Self awareness is exhausting because it ruins your own excuses. You can’t even ruin your life in peace anymore because you know exactly which old pattern you’re repeating. Ignorance is nolonger bliss,it becomes heavy responsibility.
Greatest lesson I've learned this year is you can't have one foot in your old life and one foot in your new life and expect change. You have to fully commit to the new life.
they stopped blaming their parents. their ex. their childhood. not because none of it hurt, but because they figured out they're the only one who can fix it now. the day you own your part is the day you get your power back.