[b]Mark Manson
The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it.[/b]
Indeed, and who is more avoided here than me?
In my life, I have given a fuck about many people and many things. I have also not given a fuck about many people and many things. And like the road not taken, it was the fucks not given that made all the difference.
Me? Too close to call.
The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it.
And lots of folks avoid me here, don’t they?
We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change. We have evolved to always live with a certain degree of dissatisfaction and insecurity, because it’s the mildly dissatisfied and insecure creature that’s going to do the most work to innovate and survive.
On the other hand, fuck nature.
If you want to change how you see your problems, you have to change what you value and/or how you measure failure/success.
Right, and how hard can that be?
Because when we give too many fucks, when we choose to give a fuck about everything, then we feel as though we are perpetually entitled to feel comfortable and happy at all times, that’s when life fucks us.
Trust me: It will fuck you anyway.