The truth is that an eternal happily ever after would bore you into insanity. It would kill you slowly, like the suffering of a spoiled brat. There is no end to problems, thankfully. You have an unlimited potential for satisfaction available to you every day.
The only real issue you need to figure out is which problems are worth trying to solve. Rather than aiming for a finish line, take the Stoic approach of looking for the most satisfying, value-aligned problem for you to tackle today. Not even to solve it, merely to try solving it. Understand that some problems might never fully be remedied — like trying to be totally honest — but the attempt to solve it is where the rewarding experiences are waiting for you.
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How can they end, when success creates more problems? Look for the exceptions beyond the perfect image everyone tries to paint. Here are realizations I had about some of my finish-line idols when I explored beyond the surface: Tim Ferriss , massively successful author — struggles regularly with bipolar disorder and potentially suicidal levels of depression.
Mother Teresa , famous saint known and revered for altruism — empirical evidence has emerged supporting the claim that she deliberately kept people sick so that they needed her. Jonathan Davis , singer for Korn, my most worshipped band of all time — was bullied and sexually abused as a child, became a drug addict after Korn hit fame.
Let go of getting to the end — be it retirement, endless guaranteed love, or total mastery — and instead look to solve the biggest problem of all: How can you enjoy just being alive? Comments 2. Life on earth is wrought with struggles.
That is to be expected. Every person on earth will one day die. As I grow older, I will lose the loved ones around me. I hope and pray that my happy ending is to eventually make it to eternal paradise in Heaven. That would be my ideal happy ending. All I can do is move forward each day with the confidence that everything can and does happen for a reason, no matter how difficult each obstacle may seem at the moment.
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Despite what political campaigns and media profiling might suggest, there is no obvious or right choice. And so the real story needs to begin — the healing, shifting and creating that will be necessary once this necessary chapter closes. Hope you enjoyed todays tuesdaystale hybrid of real-life story with a real-life story-in-the-making today is election-day, afterall! As always, thank you for reading and sharing your insights, love, comments and feedback!
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