"Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be."11/12/2015 I have to say that this quote is quite true... to a certain degree. There are some things that happen that can't be survived- for example, being blown to smithereens. I don't care HOW much you believe you're indestructible, if a bomb goes off next to you... you will die. Believing that you can jump off of a 20-story building and not die won't change the fact that you will still inevitably die on impact. Belief (when it comes to physical injury, anyway) cannot change anything.
The same cannot be said for mentality. Your mental state, though more complicated than physicality... is a lot more controllable. Allow me to explain the twistedness behind this. With physical pain and suffering, the pain is pin-pointable (usually). You can identify it and solve it, HOWEVER, changing your belief or point of view can not fix it. With mental pain, you can never be sure EXACTLY what is causing it. Yes, it would be wonderful if we could... but we can't. However, we can change our way of looking at everything... from small little things to life itself; and change ourselves... even heal ourselves without knowing what the problem is. The mind itself is far too complicated to explain in one blog post... in an entire book, really. It's complicated and constantly changing, and everyone's is different whether you like it or not. I'll leave it at this- the worst things that can happen are regrets; and I live without them. They used to weigh me down and make me unhappy but I learned to look at life through a different lens and it helped dramatically. Look at life like this: We only get one chance to live. What happens in the past is the past... learn from it, but move on. You cannot change or edit the past in any way. No matter how much you want to. Or think about it. Or stress about it. IT IS. UNCHANGEABLE. Accept it. Forget it. Forgive. Move on. ~Maddie
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