Live the way you want, not how others want you to live.

¨Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don´t matter and those who matter don´t mind.¨Dr Suess

They say they are proud and happy for me, but their faces say something very different. They can´t talk about it or genuinely listen to me talk about it because it´s not what they want. They ask me if I´m happy and I say yes, and then they say ¨why?¨. And then I listen to them say how bored and unhappy they are. Ironic huh?
I´m tired of getting the same reactions all the time. No one ever stops to contemplate if THEY are genuinely happy following exactly what the rest of society does. All they do is question ME and ask me why I am living my life the way I have chosen. I´m done justifying.

¨Live without pretending. Love without depending. Listen without defending. Speak without offending.¨Drake

Attachment, Pleasure and Pain

"Pain is not a punishment, pleasure is not a reward." - Pema Chodron

Let's all stop trying to think that when things go wrong, we need to run away. Let's stop thinking we always need to be happy all of the time. Let's be real and say things don't always have to be right or be wrong. We chase after pleasure and run from pain, but what we don't realize in this process is that this is the cause of our suffering. We hold onto the good things and get so attached, want them to last forever, and will do whatever it takes to protect them. When something hurts, something causes us much pain, we run away, avoid it at all costs, or try to cover it up in any way, shape or form. We imagine a perfect world, a paradise, a feeling of euphoria and spend our lives chasing after something that simply does not exist. The media advertises this nonexistent perfect world, this garden of Eden, with pills to make us happy, to make us thinner, or anything at all to make things "better". But the world surely cannot just be as it is. We cannot just live here without buying happiness. Let's all stop trying to adjust, stop trying to make things perfect, and just be here, be present and see what life is like, whether it be good or bad.