Are Consumption or Depression Self-Conflict or Spiritual Rebellion?
Hope lies in the fact that while people are still debating whether human nature is inherently good or evil, real-world people experience a tangle of emotions – family, friendship, love – alongside frustration and resignation.
Judging a person's goodness is too definitive and arbitrary.
Lost in a haze of confusion, one struggles to find solace for their emotions, will, or beliefs. Surrounded by overwhelming voices and self-imposed cages of principle and boundaries.
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Those who seek to exploit others often use persuasive rhetoric and superficially logical arguments to defeat their opponents.
Positive survivors hold an advantage, projecting an optimistic attitude and a constant stream of events like sunshine.
Negative individuals drain time with endless schemes and appearances, struggling within life's whirlpool.
Cold, dark, yearning for warmth, desolate, tragic yearning for redemption. Life's philosophy is unpredictable, leading to a constant sense of possibility and hope.
Sayings, essays, autobiographies – all speak of life's philosophy. People unconsciously engage in mutual rescue, through venting, encouragement, or empathetic understanding.
No one exists in utter helplessness. Someone is always more miserable through comparison. Finding comfort in these contrasts allows us to continue moving forward with a lighter heart.
Stubborn self-assertion can be likened to moving mountains; agricultural civilizations have evolved into technological socialist societies, and it's merely a matter of opening one's eyes to what's before us.
No one can live a life like a poem: indifferent to praise and blame, watching flowers bloom and fade before their eyes; going and staying without intention, gazing at the sky and watching clouds roll by.
Perhaps the present is a mess – a chaotic disturbance that drives people insane. But perhaps it is also a cup of warm water in the cold, a comforting word, or the success that comes after countless efforts.
The success gained with one's own hands is like a rainbow after the rain, a surge of passion after all effort, a detached calmness after experiencing the world, and the way one initially intended to live.
