Sanity check or how to not lose it.

I`ll try the “1-Hour Medium a day” gig by Tom Kuegler. Thanks for the push man and have a nice hour.

Just a warning: everything below is a very opinion-charged piece but I believe in it…for now.

Anywho, there are a thousand ways to lose yourself, either with work, friends, relationships, the internet — these all are sanity check thresholds. What I mean is that at some point in every aspect of your life you will be denied, you will not get what you want (also not get what you need) and that sucks but it also doesn’t.

Not getting your way is one of the best litmuses for mental resilience. And no, I’m not talking about the modern way of Aikido-ing your way out of failures — “learning from mistakes” and “better this way” bullshit. Sure, not entire bullshit, but sometimes a mistake or a misfortune is just that and nothing else. I think that life gets you either way, surely at some point you won’t get what you want and that is a time to look in the mirror and think. Because getting the things you want doesn’t change you as much as not getting them.

And in this very moment of deprivation you either chip away a bit of your sanity or see yourself thru a misfortune as a champ by simply accepting whatever had come without looking for meaning or silver lining.

So next time when the shit hits the fan, don’t rush looking for the good in it.

Wanting positive experience out of everything is a negative experience.

Accepting negative experience out of somethings is a positive experience.

So that was 30 minutes of Medium, now for the other 30.