“Sometimes I get a feeling that nobody is right for me. There is no one out there who’s energy suits mine. That makes me sad because, I want to feel the love, I’ve been giving to everyone else.”
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“When my absence doesn’t alter your life, then my presence has no meaning in it.”—
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.”— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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Not getting bogged down in self-pity is a golden rule of mental health. Accept the fact that life isn’t perfect - yours or anyone else’s. As the Roman philosopher Seneca said, “Things will get thrown at you and things will hit you. Life’s no soft affair.” What point is there in “being unhappy, just because once you were unhappy”? If you can do something to mitigate the current problems in your life, then do it. If you can’t, then put up with the situation. Complaining is a waste of time, and self-pity is doubly counterproductive: first, you’re doing nothing to overcome your unhappiness; and two, you’re adding to your original unhappiness the further misery of being self-destructive. Or, to quote Charlie Munger’s “iron prescription”: Whenever you think that some situation or some person is ruining your life, it is actually you who are ruining your life… Feeling like a victim is a perfectly disastrous way to go through life.“
Rolf Dobelli, ‘The Art of the Good Life’