To start again.
Today, I started my sporadic journaling again, it makes me feel alive and in touch with myself.
I wish to remind myself how good my life is, might or might not be better than others but it's good to me despite whatever nonsense my head makes out.
The quote below is the theme for today:
Also listing resources here to refer back to:
https://www.7cups.com/forum/siteupdates/GlensNookCommunity_547/BreakingOutoftheMentalPrison_347668/
Here's one excerpt from the daily stoic that I'd like to post and refer back to in the future.
"Frame your thoughts like this--you're an old person, you won't et yourself be enslaved by this any longer, no longer pulled like a puppet by every impulse, and you'll stop complaining about your present fortune or dreading the future."
We resent the person who comes in and tries to boss us around. This is because we are independent, self-sufficient people. Or at least that's what we tell ourselves.
Yet if someone says something we disagree with, something inside us tells us we have to argue with them. When something bad happens, we have to be sad, depressed, or worried. But if something good happens a few minutes later, all of a sudden we're happy, excited, and want more.
We would never let another person jerk us around the way we let our impulses do. It's time we start seeing it that way--that we are not puppets that can be made to dance this way or that way just because we feel like it.
We should be the ones in control, not our emotions, because we are independent, self-sufficient people.