"You know, sometimes your mind plays tricks on you. It can tell you you are no good, that it's all hopeless. But I've discovered this: you are loved and important, and you bring to this world things that no one else can. So hold on."

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"What you avoid controls you. Avoidance feels like relief in the short term, but every time you dodge discomfort, you strengthen fear, shame, procrastination, or resentment. Go take that one small step today that scares you."

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"The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live."

© Carl Jung

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I don't understand one thing about us humans, we tend to follow what others are doing, copy them and imitate like it's encoded to our DNA. The weird thing is even if the group of some people doing something "stupid" - (in a good way) others who are watching would do the same at the very least (even if they don't have their own reasoning behind it they still follow what others are doing)

Is it because of FOMO and Survival mechanism? Like, if we do not do something that gets accepted and approval of the group it threatens our survival. Mostly because we might get outcasted by them, and our brain does anything it takes to survive and pass out the genes for the next generation. History proves this, Sapiens outcompeted Neanderthals because they could cooperate and work in big groups, hunt, and be efficient this way.

Yet, we don't live in the caves anymore nor cooperating on a large scale, cooperating is good but the instinct of getting the approval of the group is the notorious remnant of that narrative from the past?

#unfiltered_shower_thoughts

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Being understood is the best form of art and an indirect therapy on its own. Not being understood is the core of all the conflicts, fights and arguments.

Ironically, we want to be understood but at the same time don't work on improving the delivery of the message, what is it that we want from the other party isn't always clear, even to ourselves, and the worst part is we don't even look at ourselves from a third person perspective because it's easy to blame someone else instead of us, we don't reflect and forget who we actually wanted to be in our pages of life.

Jordan Peterson once said, "articulate" person is the most dangerous person in a society, and my take from that is if you are good at expressing yourself you can do like anything, you have all the keys to any doors. But this still gets paradoxical, even if you are 100% well-spoken the other party interprets what you say in their own way not the way you wanted, which still causes a conflict. So wouldn't life be better if only all of us had our "point-of-view gun" from Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy?)

#raw_reflections

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- What do you miss?
- I miss the way I viewed the world before I knew too much about it

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Let that sink in)

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Be crazy enough to believe you can do anything in life. The soldier who does not want to become a general is bad. Maybe it's loudly said, but when you set goals and reach your dreams, it's worth a lot.

A boy asks Mozart how to write a symphony.

Mozart tells the boy he's too young and should study more first.

The boy says, "But you were writing symphonies at age 10."

Mozart: "But I wasn't asking people how to do it."

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- Happiness isn't having what you want,
- It's wanting what you have.

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