Time is really a crazy thing.
I have just finished my first semester of senior year and I have spent the whole weekend thinking of the future: where I want to be, what I want to do, etc….and I’ve also thought of the past and questioned how pleased I am with my life at this point. It was kind of like a domino effect, one thought lead to another, and all of the sudden I began worrying about how time is flying by and I have no control over it.
It seems crazy to realize that a few years ago I thought this would be the perfect point in life for me. Exactly where I wanted to be- yet somehow whenever I reach those points, I also look for more, ask for more, and need more to make me happy. And I think a big problem in that is that our expectations rarely meet true reality (whether good or bad).
I have just finished my first semester of senior year and I have spent the whole weekend thinking of the future: where I want to be, what I want to do, etc….and I’ve also thought of the past and questioned how pleased I am with my life at this point. It was kind of like a domino effect, one thought lead to another, and all of the sudden I began worrying about how time is flying by and I have no control over it.
It seems crazy to realize that a few years ago I thought this would be the perfect point in life for me. Exactly where I wanted to be- yet somehow whenever I reach those points, I also look for more, ask for more, and need more to make me happy. And I think a big problem in that is that our expectations rarely meet true reality (whether good or bad).
So much about life is kind of a melancholy feeling. We have to learn to accept the present for what it is, and completely give ourselves to life, taking whatever comes our way. As we grow up we leave so much behind…. but we gain so much at the same time. It is as if our life is in constant balance. We need to lose in order to gain….because we can never have too much of one thing.
I read an article that spoke about how suffering is unnecessary for humans and how suffering is only there to serve a purpose of awareness.
“Suffering is unnecessary: Like a disease, once we really face the fact that suffering exists, we can look more deeply and discover its cause; and when we discover that the cause is dependent on certain conditions, we can explore the possibility of removing those conditions.”
I was really inspired by this, considering we spend so much of our time worrying, thinking and obsessing over things that only clutter or harm our minds. If we take suffering and put it in a sense of awareness, we begin to take control of our emotions and our lives will not only be made simpler, but we will be happier. In other words, we should not just worry- we should wonder why we are worrying in the first place.
“Suffering is unnecessary: Like a disease, once we really face the fact that suffering exists, we can look more deeply and discover its cause; and when we discover that the cause is dependent on certain conditions, we can explore the possibility of removing those conditions.”
I was really inspired by this, considering we spend so much of our time worrying, thinking and obsessing over things that only clutter or harm our minds. If we take suffering and put it in a sense of awareness, we begin to take control of our emotions and our lives will not only be made simpler, but we will be happier. In other words, we should not just worry- we should wonder why we are worrying in the first place.
I’ve realized that no matter how much thinking I do on my life, where I am, and where I will be, I will only be missing out on what is happening right NOW. And worrying is only going to make me more anxious, more irritable, and more stressed out. There is no reason to make our lives more complicated than they are…and sometimes our own personal thoughts cause us more damage than any outside factor could.
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