Daily Afflictions
April 7, 2008 by eyna
Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe
by Andrew Boyd
When you are unhappy, you find yourself prone to feelings of envy and jealousy. When your own life seems worthless, you often look at someone else’s life and want it for yourself. But remember, however much you might want his car, career, lover or even good looks and intelligence, you would never, given the chance, choose to be that person. You would never choose to exchange souls, because your ego is fiercely bound to your defects and failings no matter how appalling they may be.
Once you realize this — once you realize that no matter how worthless your life is, it’s still the only one you would ever choose to have — you can begin to see yourself with new eyes.
My life is worthless, but it is mine.
Huh?? Warum worthless? I don’t think so, I think not. I think your life is meaningful and intertwined with those people around you that you meet - people you have relations, or even strangers who sat beside you in the sbahn etc, it is all interconnected and woven like a spider’s web. Without you being there -that web would fail to exist. So conclusion - I think you are an important being with a meaningful life and and what’s better that life is yours — hehe
smile naman, wag maasar. i have some coke codes for you i will send it through yahoomessenger-
oh no… this is not about me. I think the author of that book wants to share that it is normal for people to feel in a certain way when they are unhappy or at times feeling worthless. We only have to realize that our pains, struggles, and momentary feeling of worthlessness is a part of life. This fact is something we have to embrace to see life in a new light and that nobody else can own someone’s pains and struggles but oneself.
I agree, we are at some point, interconnected with one another and everyone is existing for a certain cause.
now i’ll go check those coca cola codes …