For the most part, we likes things because we identify with them. However, "I identify with" is not the same as "better."
Infinite interpretations of reality exist.
Journeying the path to enlightenment, you will encounter many brick walls.
If you don't believe it yourself, how do you expect others to believe you?
There are no clear answers for most of our personal dilemmas.
Just because someone isn't an asshole all the time, doesn't mean they weren't an asshole at the time.
It's possible and likely that a lot of the things you think you know, you really don't know.
It's mostly all in your head.
Both positively and negatively are equally possible ways to interpret the same reality.
It's okay if you have nothing to say.
Wherever you go, you're bringing yourself with you.
Sometimes you gotta check out before you can check in.
(...By that I mean: sometimes you have to give into what you're avoiding (feelings-fear, anger, sadness) before you can actually feel better, to feel like a complete, connected person.)
Everything is how it is, and you are your own person.
Sometimes self-awareness comes on like an unexpected visitor, barging into your room and demanding to know, "What the hell is going on here???"
Sometimes, especially for an empathetic person, it can be easy to disconnect from yourself. To reconnect with yourself, journal. And journal only for yourself - when you mention a new person, just write their name; you already know who they are.
There's always another way to see things and interpret reality...though I know how difficult it can be to change your perception.
Your psychological baggage is showing.
Luckily, most people are too self-absorbed to notice or care.
(Most of) the arbitrary options over which we anxiously deliberate don't even exist outside the experience of human consciousness.
Why is your opinion more or less valid than someone else's?
One of the steps towards enlightenment is:
You must let yourself feel the things you try to not let yourself feel.
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