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by vernon99 2713 days ago
On point. I think that also is applicable to your personal life btw. I had a short-lived existensial crisis a few days back, realizing that my life is getting too complex for me to properly manage it. Things were falling out of hand, I wasn’t making enough progress, etc. I even had a suicidal thought, my first in a very long while. But then reflecting on it I realized that this complexity is driven by my mounting desires. To improve my balance and regain the sense of control over my life, I should examine these desires and get rid of secondary ones, which would make my life simpler and I would be less prone to error (blunder in the article’s terminology). Instantly made me feel better :)
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Our lives are frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify. -hdt
As also suggested by lots of ancient religions and philosophers!