i think that most happy people, livers, the people i talked in my post that make shit happen, i can imagine that they share a view of the human soul as being a person. then, experiences, schooling, work, emotional troubles, etc etc are put on this person as a layer of tint. as the person travels through life, more and more layers are put on the person, and at any one point, lifting one or several specific layers would be no problem. i consider myself fairly emo. i have a way darker way to view it. i think that you are who you are, and as you travel through life you are more like an entity that continues to evolve than one that grows. you're not one person whose opinions and attitudes change throughout life, i think that who you are at any one point in time is made up by the sum of who you started out as and the person you are at that time. i don't think that every person is themself, and if they go down a bad road, they can just make up for it and they'll be the same rightous self that they used to be. as you make choices in life, i think you close potential doors for yourself. by the end, you will be so trapped by your own life that you won't be able to escape. imagine if you keep living your life the way you live it for another 20 years. imagine all the routines you're gonna build up. my grandpa was a type of person like this. every morning he'd drink his coffe and have a smoke, then go to work in his mercedes, he had his own way of turning off the alarm, his own way of adjusting the mirrors before starting the engine. every day after work he'd go to the local kiosk and purchase one copy of the two larger newspapers over here, go home, have dinner with my grandma, read the papers, have a nap, then watch telly and drink red wine. he did this every day for the last few years of his life until he died from a brain tumor. there must be a reason why so many people end up like this. proud, stubborn, depending on routines.
obviously, if you think of yourself as a person with many attributes that can be taken away or changed, quitting smoking isn't as bad as when you really believe that smoking is a part of who you are now.
someone who doesn't have problems with anxiety and mild depressions will never understand someone who do. and i really believe that today, with every other person needing mental care just to live life, what i have proposed is not so far-fetched. i have a thing for spotting patterns and there's something there for sure.
obviously, if you think of yourself as a person with many attributes that can be taken away or changed, quitting smoking isn't as bad as when you really believe that smoking is a part of who you are now.
someone who doesn't have problems with anxiety and mild depressions will never understand someone who do. and i really believe that today, with every other person needing mental care just to live life, what i have proposed is not so far-fetched. i have a thing for spotting patterns and there's something there for sure.
