Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Learning how to be happy: Accepting Boredom

There is something that Dustin and I talked about the other day that I realize is truly central to my life.  That there are no definitives in this life; you make everything on your own.  This is incredibly frightening.

Another thing to realize is that everything is truly okay; no matter whether your perception of something is good or bad, it is beyond your choice for how to see it, and everything is okay- you do not need to feel guilty about how you are, you can just enjoy being.  That is probably the most freeing thing to understand.

The third thing to realize is that one must accept how things are... in general.  Once you start to accept things for how they are, life starts to be really boring.  And quickly, things become interesting again.. but the key is, you cannot create something in your mind to escape the boredom.  The problem is not that you are bored or that you are excited.  Both present and unpresent people can have these feelings.   The only difference is that people who are present are accepting life and things for how they are.

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