whatever happened..in my "bad day"..im still in a much better spot than i was just a year ago..bouncing from family/friends' houses, pretty much living outta my car..so despite the raw reality checks/realization that i did experience today..i still feel very blessed to be where i'm at.
im reading this book..
and it helps with being positive..with your life..no matter what the circumstances.
here's an excerpt i find useful in everyday life.. tests.. trials.. depression.. whatever it may be..
To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. The total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you? It constantly projects itself into the future to ensure its continued survival and to seek some kind of release or fulfillment there.
It says: "One day, when this, that, or the other happens, I am going to be okay, happy, at peace." Even when the ego seems to be concerned with the present, it is not the present that it sees: It misperceives it completely because it looks at it through the eyes of the past. Or it reduces the present to a means to an end, an end that always lies in the mind-projected future. Observe your mind and you'll see that this is how it works.
THE PRESENT MOMENT HOLDS THE KEY TO LIBERATION.
doesn't it sound like something Tyler Durden would say??..that guy is much deeper than he looks =)
2 comments:
gah. I know what you mean. Bad days are weak. They happen though. Do what the book says. ha.
i'm going to comment on this because this shit is absolutely true. there are so many people thinking 5 years from now or whatever but they neglect to know that we don't know what the fuck is gonna happen 5 years from now. that is why i am all about the present. i'm a tomorrow people. i live in now. good job miss!
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