So is this what being an adult is like?… relentless anxiety and stress about making ends meet and keeping up with society’s pressures. The constant feeling that you have no balance or time. Any moment you do get to ‘stop’, you’re only tortured by your own mind. If not that, then you feel numb and empty.
(Im 28 but matured late)…
I was watching a cake decorating show today thinking: ‘ how could anyone enjoy spending hours on intricate details of a cake when they know its going to get cut up, eaten and digested by someone soon after.
Cake decorators must be truely content people who have mastered living in the moment.
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All cake decorators are actually Buddhist monks haha
Being an adult sucks. I hate it. I am very jealous of my young 2-year old daughter. Hopefully she will enjoy adulthood more someday, but her current innocence and care-free life is something I wish continued out whole lives.
And also… Now I want some cake. Cake helps a little bit.
Very interesting that you should mention that. I used to kind of have that approach to life down. I lost it after I started taking psychiatric drugs. Steer clear, kids.
I think it’s about learning to value impermanence. That the only constant is change. That ownership is mostly a social concept. Nothing lasts. Nobody owns anything.
At its most profound, I guess it is acceptance of death. Life itself doesn’t last. No one owns their life.
I think some of the happiest people in the world are those that sacrifice themselves for what they believe to be a higher good.
If you can let go like that, spiritually, at least, I think you’re onto something.
Thanks for posting.
Another way to put it might be “surrender”.