Hello and welcome to my blog on overcoming life’s difficulties in the most positive way.
Have you ever felt that something was wrong with the world as it is? As though the world were full of lies, deceit, bullshit politics, dogmatic beliefs, unreality? Have you ever thought “life sucks, I hate life, I don’t belong here” or anything similar? That there was no way to be authentic in this life and get what you want? That you had to fake it, to falsify yourself for job interviews, bullshit office politics, university life, social clique status? Do you feel that you have to falsify yourself in order to make your relationships successful? Do you have to succumb to social pressure in order to achieve success? Could it be that it’s all hopeless and that happiness is an unreachable ideal? No wonder life sucks!
Well, it’s all true. The world is bullshit. Let’s face it, politics is bullshit, tv newscasts are bullshit. When they’re not lying to us, they’re busy keeping us distracted with stupid “news stories” that we are never meant to retain. A constant stream of meaningless distractions which keep us away from coming to terms with our own lives in a meaningful and positive way. Sick voyeurism at its best.
I believe that in the midst of this constant stream of pre-programmed gibberish, we, as individual conscious beings, have the power to come to a crucial realization: That our own personal web of thoughts could be false as well.
Ask yourself this: Could your own interpretations of reality be causing your misery? Could it be that life itself doesn’t suck, and that in reality it is your life that sucks? And worse that it’s you’ve contributed to your own problems without realizing it?
This is the starting point of my blog. It seeks to provoke readers into questioning their own beliefs, into seeing their lives more objectively, and getting out of both externally-imposed and self-inflicted dead ends.
The spark for my major life change, and by extension, for this blog, came to me at dusk one night in the hills of Andalucia, sitting on a swing in a farmhouse garden. A new friend I had made challenged me to look into my own mind and confront my own beliefs. To weed out the crap and wipe the slate clean. And it worked.
That night I started to change completely and began to take full account of the drunken monkey in my head, the narrator that was interpreting my life. And I realized that even when one is morally right, beliefs can be formed in reaction to all the negative external influences, that these beliefs can often be false, and that they can actually be the chains that tie us down and ruin the rest of our lives. They can affect and even dominate our relationships, careers and everything else in our lives.
So life-improvement begins with taking a good look at one’s own thoughts and beliefs. As an old Chinese book said:
“Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?”
This insight is the true beginning to a better life. The rest? The rest is mere application.
So yes, the matrix may have you, but freeing yourself from it is as simple as stepping back from your own mind. This blog will take a peek behind appearances and point to a deeper level of “reality.” It will provide a multi-disciplinary approach to self-transformation, including information about practical philosophy, psychology, health, and everything related to impacting our lives in a positive way.
And hopefully, it will help a few people in the process.
Konstantin.
