Two
things that have struck me as being important over the last month or
so, is:
-
Dopamine Detox/Resistance (getting
back self-control)
-
Life is meant to be enjoyed (in moderation) and not endured!
In
this post, I talk about the latter - "Life is meant to be
enjoyed!"
If
you are not enjoying life, you need to ask yourself why!
1)
Are you taking life too seriously?
Don't
take life too seriously. Why so serious?
2)
Are you not enjoying the things you have and needlessly desiring
more?
"It
is not how much we have (or what we have), but how much we enjoy,
that makes happiness."
3)
Are your unobtainable/faraway/silly desires making you sad?
"Desire
is the root cause of all suffering!"
4)
Are you putting unnecessary pressure on yourself?
"A
diamond is a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally
well."
5)
Are you afraid of something?
If
so, why are you afraid?
Is
it something worth being afraid
of
Is
it going to kill you?
Remember:
"What
doesn't kill us, makes us stronger!"
6)
Are you trying to be something you are not?
Be
yourself (even
if you think you're a total c^nt!)
7) Are you worried about what other people think of you?
Solipsism
= "the view or theory that the
self is all that can be known
to exist"
8) Are you stressed about something?
Is
it worth being stressed about?
Take
time to relax,
reflect and
re-imagine.
9) Are you constantly day dreaming / fantasizing / wishing you were
someplace else / doing something else / in another life?
"The
journey of life is not meant to be feared and planned; it is meant to
be traveled and enjoyed."
10)
Are you being true to (and honest with) yourself?
Be
true and honest with yourself!
If
you think something is bollocks, it's bollocks.
Being
given bollocks tasks to do, doesn't stop you from doing those tasks
well and enjoying the task.
11) Dreaming of the long sleep?
The
long sleep comes to everyone eventually. Comfort yourself in knowing
it will come to you one day. For now, enjoy your life. You're a long
time dead (and a short time to enjoy life)!
"I've
seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the
shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the
Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears
in rain. Time to die." - Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner)
12) Are you forgetting something?
Maybe
you're not enjoying life because you are forgetting something? Like
music?
13) Are you forcing yourself to do things you don't like and not
liking yourself because you don't like these things?
In
life you must sometimes (maybe often) do things you don't like to
survive. Not liking things isn't a productive state of mind. Enjoy
them anyway. Try to find the
element of fun that is always
there to be had.
14) Are you practicing the right attitude?
"Right
attitudes produce right actions."
15) Are you worried that people think you are shit at what you do?
"If
it's hard to learn to do something well, learn to be happy doing it
poorly."
And again "... the self is all that can be known..."
16) Are you resisting dopamine hits enough?
Dopamine
isn't all bad, but too much indulgence isn't good.
"Life
is meant to be enjoyed in moderation, not can'ts and cans."
Image:
"The poorer we are inwardly, the more we try to enrich ourselves
outwardly." - Bruce Lee
