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People aren’t taught to think for a reason. I think one of the most important things a person could do for themselves is start questioning and analyzing themselves and the world around them. Why do I do what I do, why do I believe what I believe, why do I feel a certain way about something, why do others act the way they do considering they are human in exactly the same way I am, what do I actually think is right and wrong apart from what I’ve been told, what do I truly want and care about, do I actually like what I’m doing, are my actions are hurting others, are my actions are hurting myself. Trying to figure out how life works and how you want to live it yourself is a difficult but extremely rewarding way of living that I think pretty much everyone would benefit from.
Comment by Grizzlywillis at 28/01/2025 at 22:13 UTC
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This has been a big development of mine over the last year. It's very easy to just react to things, but I find it much easier lately to stop and consider why I feel a certain way, why I want to take an action, and if any of this is useful. Taking stock of myself and the world.
This isn't to say I've mastered emotions or whatever, but it has helped with, as you said, the why.
My only issue is this leaves me feeling, perhaps paradoxically, like less of an active participant in my own life. There's a wall of separation between the instinctual me and the conscious me, with the latter influencing but not fully controlling the former.
Tying this back to the OP, it does sort of fall into living as the narrator or author of my own life. Yes, there are numerous boundaries and influences I have little to no control of, but I can still "write" myself around them as it were.