Quotes

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

- Benjamin Franklin

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Some thoughts to enlighten.

Life is complicated by so many factors, most of which are outside of our immediate control. These complications dominate our psyche through physical manifestations like escalated gas prices, poverty, war and disease. These outside factors are a part something else, something not biological but foreign, not your mind.

Inside your mind you are always free. There never has been a more true definition of freedom than the human mind. Inside it you may do whatever you please. These outside complications can never break into this dimension of yours, even when they seem to have done so already. These complications or "attacks" wage war on your senses. Your mind polls external sensors for information it can learn from or react to, and that is where the problem lies.

Consider This

When the hand holds the coals of a dying fire the nerves signal the brain with details about their situation. The brain processes this information, extrapolates a good solution using the resources it has available to it, such as visual and smell. This message is sent to the conscious mind in an encoded message containing information about what is happening to the body and a possible course of action. The conscious mind is you, and the way you receive that message is through pain. With pain you know that something detrimental to your health is happening, you know where. You will probably make the decision given by the message and drop the rock. This is what is special though, you did not have to drop the rock. You had every ability to hold onto that rock until the muscles holding it burned to ash. It would have been a foolish choice, but it was a choice.

So what does all of this mean?

As a species we are very lucky to have a conscious mind. The ability to have preprocessed data granted to us takes away much of the work of survival. We do not need to decide whether or not to dive head first in to the acid pit, our minds will give us a valid idea of what will happen, and we simply act on it.

The commander and chief has no more power than this. But what about when depression strikes us, what then? Depression is the source of an external stimulus like all other messages. Not all messages are perfect, some are malformed, some are malicious. But like all choices we are given, we often choose the easiest one. The hardest thing to do in life is to live. Our ability to choose is a precious gift. Sometimes we just need time to find the right solution.

 

Michael