闲人

What do we do?

Perhaps the best solutions lie between finding a way to make a good story, or stop the storytelling entirely and just see what is, just be.

Survival is a losing battle. The more time and energy you spend, the more is wasted in the end. IF you don't have something larger to strive towards. Survival not as the end, but the means to achieve an end. And that end is the result of storytelling. Something becomes of value because we tell ourselves, in various ways, that it is of value.

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Storytelling is something that we do well, whether we realize it or not. Not in the sense that we make good stories but in the sense that we do it almost automatically. Yet it is not always helpful. Often for example, in the case of emotions, our stories lead us to justify our feelings or to deny them. I have the right to be angry because of such and such. I shouldn't be angry because of such and such. The former feeds emotions, the latter creates more difficult emotions: guilt at being angry, unworthiness because of one's lack of control, depression at one's unworthiness.