Peace, Mental Health, and Suffering
As I mentioned a few days ago, when you don’t know who you truly are, you are bound to suffer. Of course, ignorant of the true cause, you will also blame someone else for your discomfort. That’s not an opinion, that’s an universal fact. And it’s the price we pay for ignorance.
Every time you experience a conflict, when you face yourself and admit your part in the confrontation, the contribution of the adversary you put blame on pales into insignificance. It simply stops to matter.
Even if you eventually find out that your acts, equally as your, oftentimes hidden, motivations and preconceived attitudes, were completely pure and innocent because they had proper shape addressed to a proper individual at a proper time with driving force that is beyond reproach.
Try it, and you will see that it is, indeed, so. You will either end up with some equivalent of, “Ah, how could I be so stupid?!” or you will know for sure that you carry no blame. You will either gain knowledge or you will gain vindication and validation. And with both comes peace of mind.
In either case, when you face yourself, you cannot lose. Thus, you stop blaming your adversary — the urge for revenge (or what have you) will dissipate. The conflict is closed.
Sure, you may see that your adversary is truly an idiotic asshole, uneducated dickhead, or irredeemable bitch (though, you will also see that no one is beyond redemption), but it won’t matter beyond the fact that you simply have to account for that sad reality in the future.
Now, of course, how to be able to face yourself without literally going mad and without doing even more damage to the whole world, which naturally includes yourself, is a completely different issue.
And just a quick reminder for all those who vigorously advocate for changes in educational institutions and their curricula — force kids to know themselves in some compulsory educational institution and most will hate self-knowledge with every fiber of their being.
Solely because you have to be genuinely willing to know who you are and no one will ever be able to do that for you. Neither be willing and make a free choice instead of you, let alone know yourself in your place. If there is a law and a rule, that one is certainly it.
All in all, face yourself to know yourself. Don’t suffer anymore. After all, suffering, including yours, is the very reason why we all also suffer things like exploitation and wars.
Well, it’s really not that complicated … ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
