life
alison has been asking a lot of questions about life lately and what the point of everything is. she doesn't understand anything. so we've spent a lot of time talking about it all trying to figure everything out. from it i guess i kind of came up with my own ideas about what life is like. she asked who we are and it makes me think back to t.o.k. i remember saying things about how we're everything. we're our thoughts, our reason, our emotions. we really are everything. we're our appearance. we're physical and mental. i think the mental is of more importance than the physical. i think we are in control of our thoughts, reasoning, emotions and all that make us who we are. we are only in control of who we are. we can only control what makes us who we are. what we can't control are circumstances. we can control how we react to these circumstances but that's about it. we have to learn how to react to things positively. we need to practice controlling our thoughts and emotions. instead of dwelling on negative thoughts we need to focus on the positive. we can choose be miserable or happy. it's up to us. the more we are able to harness happy thoughts and energy the happier we'll feel. our purpose is to live. we were put here to be happy. to enjoy life. we weren't put here to live miserable lives driven by money and power. that's not the point. life is what we make it based on who we are.
she sent a quote saying that we are here and all we do is play roles. well of course we just play a role here but it's our choice. the quote says nothing is our choice. we don't choose anything but i disagree. we control everything. being in control means we have a choice. the point of the quote though is asking what is going on? what is all of this. i think the answer is that we can't know. we can only know what's in front of us. what's being thrown at us each day. we aren't able to step far enough away from it all to know what's going on. in books and movies and such all we ever know is what we see or read about. we can think we know what the story is about and what's going on, but you never really know until the end. i really think we get all our answers in the end. when we can finally step away from it all and take it in. only then can we understand it. i also think we have to know who we are before we can even begin to understand what's going on. basically all we can do here is work on ourselves. we can work on figuring out who we really are. who we were sent here to be. after learning how to control the elements contributing to who we are, we start to feel the positive effects and start to find that inner peace. that inner peace is who we are. being ok with the world and focusing on just enjoying the opportunity we have. being at peace is what we're supposed to do here. that inner peace is who we are. after finding who we are, we can start to understand why we're here or what the point is. i don't think we'll ever fully get it until the end but eventually it all comes together. most people come to peace at the end of their lives. on their death beds or just in old age. they open themselves up to more and slowly they just accept it all and find that peace i think. obviously not everyone gets there but most find it towards the end. i think it's an important step in understanding what the point was.
here's the quote she sent me:
"Where are the people that chose their lives?
...maybe a life of drudgery and carrot-chasing is exactly what we would chose if we did chose, we don't. That's what it means to be unconsicous; to be asleep within the dream. We slip into the lives that are laid out for us the way children slip into the chothers their mother lays out for them in the morning. No one decides. We don't live our lives by choice, but by default. We play the roles we are born to. We don't live our lives, we dispose of them. We throw them away because we don't know any better, and the reason we don't know any better is because we never asked. We never questioned or doubted, never stood up, never drew a line. We never walked up to our parents or our spiritual advisors or our teachers or our gurus or any other frmative presences in our early lives and asked on simple, honest, straightforward question, the one questions that must be answered before any other question can be asked.
What the hell is going on here?"
i also think there's no point in asking the people around us what's going on because they won't have the answer either. life is about experiencing. i don't think we can get answers until we've experienced. so if anyone were to come up to me and tell me that they know everything. that they know what happens afterwards i wouldn't believe them. unless they dies and somehow came back to life, only then would i maybe consider believing them.
that's how i see things as of right now. all i can do is control me. i have to learn to work on controlling my thoughts, emotions, feelings. my reactions. it's all up to me so hopefully i can take this idea and fully apply it.
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