Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the
impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Impossible.
The word, is only defined by your personal expectations of your own capabilities. If you define your own powers and your own strength as weak, everything seems impossible. Every bridge seems burned, every obstacle too big, all your baggage, too heavy. None of that is right though, because it's all about your definition. If you define something as impossible, it is. You will never be able to overcome it, work around it, get by it, get over it, live with it. You've defined it as a limit. Something that can stop you from continuing. If you've defined it as impossible and it stops you.
Do you understand what that means?
You're holding yourself back. You're creating the impossible. You have created your own limit. You have created an impossibility. Your life is impeded by your own self-doubt and self-value.
What the heck man! Why are you stopping yourself? When you look at something and tell yourself it can't be done, it won't be done, you've just stopped yourself from possibly doing something incredible, something amazing, something LIFE CHANGING! Let's say you want to give up everything where you live and move overseas. Start fresh, start new, see the world. Do it. Sure, it's a huge task that takes a lot of planning, time and money. But you know what? IF you wanna do it? You freaking do it. It's not impossible, everything is possible. It only becomes impossible when you say it does.
Indispensable.
Indispensable is something that is absolutely necessary or essential. Again, there is nothing in your life that fits this category. There is nothing that you absolutely cannot live with out. You don't need a house. You don't need a car. You don't need to go to europe. You don't need a chihuahua. You don't need make up. You don't need clothes. You need nothing. You decide what your life contains and once you decide that, you can decide what you define as an indispensable thing. The things you should be assigning to that category are things that if you lost, you would want to die. Life would seem absolutely worth not living without those things. If your car gets stolen, not that big of a deal. You can buy a new car. It shouldn't be things you can buy or material possessions. The truly indispensable things. You know what they are. If you don't, shit you need to sort your priorities. If you've had those things taken from you, whether it's for good or only a short time, god I hope you appreciate them. Cling to them, nurture them, be nice to them, forgive them, love them. If you're lucky enough to have never felt the hurt of losing something or everything you class as indispensable then take it from me and the rest of us when I say it hurts. You never feel more close to death than when you have nothing to live for.
Intolerable.
We all know that one person who shits us so much that one day you think you might just snap and drive the nearest object through their forehead. Intolerable right? Wrong. Whether someones a dickhead, an asshole, rude, pretentious, moronic, a royal pain in your ass or maybe all of the above they're still not intolerable. Unfortunately for you, there's about seven billion people on this planet. So your opinion of someone, your attitude towards them is a grain of sand on the longest beach in the universe. So that means the it's up to you to change your attitude and change isn't as hard or as scary as people make it out to be. You just have to be prepared for it all the time. Realize that you are constantly changing and you are never the same person for two seconds. As your mind ticks over and you consider the questions of life, questions of the day, considering different options, different decisions, you are changing. You are growing. Take something intolerable and consider every element of it. You will find one, if not several, great qualities. If it's a person you need to remember all of the shit baggage you have stored away that you never ever ever want to let out for everyone. How do you know they don't have the same? Worse? You don't. Everyone you meet, before you judge them consider your own baggage, all of your shit, all of your secrets, all of your crap experiences that created a bad side of you that you don't like and put that into them. Make them you. They have all your shit. Your life is theirs. When you meet them, when you greet them, when you hate them, when you try to avoid them consider who you've now made them. You know all of their baggage, all their ins and outs, what makes them exactly who they are. You wouldn't judge so harshly now would you? You'd tolerate them, hell you'd probably feel for them. No longer intolerable. You are as much intolerable to other people as they are to you, remember that.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
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