For Every Level There Is Another Fiend
Dear youth,
How convenient is it to let opposition over your past catastrophes hold you back from trying again. How easy is it for you to fail to come to terms with your own fiascos and then blame everything and everyone for all the things that you’ve had going on in your life.
How easy is it to not like your current status quo and yet still allow it. To not trust your relatives, your employers and the people around you and yet still feel obliged to keep them, feigning a smile each time they walk into the room. Why are they still there?
How easy is it to think inadequate of yourself and then expect your life to be any different. How convenient is it to keep messing around with the same deleterious, wicked and inefficient people and then expect progressive results. How easy is it to give away your own power by simply failing to realize that you’re the one doing time for the crimes you’ve committed and time is not the one doing you.
How easy is it to conclude that you’re an invalid just because you’re sitting on that wheel chair as a result of a disease that doesn’t even define who you are. Define invalid for me please. How easy is it to allow pain that your tormentors caused you in the past to continue nicking life out of you gradually and confiscate your contentment.
Regrettably, it is easy so for many to feel sorry for themselves, to sabotage themselves, to belittle themselves and to conclude that they deserve no forgiveness for their faults and no second chance in life. Regrettably, it was easier so for me to clutter my mind with full negativity.
Perhaps you’re currently facing a predicament and you want to commit suicide, yet you haven’t taken that action because you’re still thinking about it. Why think about it? Why not just do it now? Why run if you can’t find a way to live with yourself? What if I’m telling you right now that I have a solution to solve all of your problems and if you’re into it, just sent me an email? Exactly! That new feeling of escapism you’ve just experienced now is exactly what you really want. It’s exactly what I wanted when I was still in a gloomy unending tunnel of depression. You don’t want to commit suicide and that’s why you haven’t taken that step yet. That’s why you’re reading this and you’re probably shedding tears or feeling emotional.
When the goings gets tough and you’re faced with difficulties, it’s easy to allow your mind to fill with negative thoughts that are only there to block you from seeing on the other side of a mountain. Succumbing to those thoughts take possession of your change to experience the positive things lying ahead for you.
As we probably all grasp, God has a fiend and His fiend is Satan. If He wanted He could get rid of him now and we all live happily ever after. But He has plans for him, the same way that you and I should learn to have plans for our fiend at our every level of life. The fiend I’m talking about here is not the challenges we’re facing in our everyday life. And in fact, most of those challenges aren’t virtually as hard to overcome it as our fiend makes it for ourselves and also destroys our enthusiasm in the process.
The key burden to motivational success is the myth of abiding attributes. It is possible to feel that you can’t think optimistic while you’re in a predicament of some sort. And it is people who have been through so much in life the most who struggle to return their positive minds and see themselves as the heroes of their next predicaments.
I’m going to be frank with you and I need you to absorb this, for your sake, for your prospective children’s sake, and since no one ever emphasized this to me when I was young. Life is so disappointing when you grow up. Willy-nilly you’re going to face disappointments at some point in your life. Either you grow up to face those disappointments for real and insist on your optimism or you grow up to have them facing you and offering you pessimism. The fiend is likely to intrude when you’re mostly pessimistic. The detrimental thoughts of negativity, the fiend, attack when we face disappointments. Once you allow him to intrude in your mind, he becomes a habit that keeps you going deeper and deeper into a pit of pessimism. He becomes the law of your neurological system. Now to break this law is easy, but to face the immediate consequences of breaking it is not as hard as it is to go through the process of amending it altogether.
How to put this? Drug addicts can most certainly go a day without drugs, right? But what’s going to happen the next morning when they wake up? The craving for drugs will likely to be twice as strong as it normally would be. This is exactly how pessimism works. It’s an addict. And once you are addicted to it a day is only long to go without it. For thorough illustration, imagine that you’re a drug addict and you have to spend months in a rehab to restore yourself back to normal. That means you won’t get any supply during the period of your rehabilitation. And whatever pain shall come with your cravings for drugs, you will have to put up with. Those who have once been drug addicts familiarize with the painful feeling of craving drugs while in rehab. To go a day without drugs is easy. To experience the next day’s cravings is not as torturous as it is to endure the pain of not being supplied for the whole period of your rehabilitation.
Yet pessimism doesn’t have to become your addictive drug, even though like a drug (in especially if you’ve been introduced to drugs before) it will keep knocking at your door on each stage of your life. You open for him and he will befriend to befiend you. You send him away and he leaves but will always find a way to visit you again on another level. But if he’s already your friend and you wake up everyday to enjoy just a few minutes of optimism and contentment before drowning back into that pool of negativity and it goes on like that for the rest of the day, I am not a specialist and I believe not even a specialist can really help you, but you are not alone.
All it might take is for you to first see your detrimental thoughts for what they are: nihilism. Nihilism is a state of anarchy whereby one rejects all spiritual and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless. And without at least knowing that there is a meaning to life, you can’t survive pessimism. You can’t survive anything. Nihilism is a disease there to rescind your liberty and contentment until you succumb to desolation your whole life.
So, what do we do?
Number one, we need a new perspective. That’s right, a new perspective. Say it to yourself, “I don’t need a fresh new strength of character. I Need A New Perspective.”
How live life is based on your perspective about life. And if your perspective is negative, then I’m afraid this letter is already letting you down and you’re surely to remain like that for a very long time if you won’t seek another way to find that new positive perspective.
When a mosquito bites it leaves on you an enzyme that other mosquitoes can smell. But you can always take a bath, use repelling creams on your skin and do away with the enzyme. It’s all up to you. This does not mean other mosquito will not come to try their luck on you. And it also does not mean the repelling fragrance of the cream will last forever. However, there’s always something that you can do to avoid getting bitten the second time. This is a positive way of thinking, a positive perspective that will lift you from earth to the moon.
You’re going to be an adult one day and see how discouraging it is to spend eight hours at work with your uncooperative colleagues and a bitter boss who is always on your case. You’re going to be a parent someday and feel how demanding it is to raise a child to be a respectful adult. You’re going to get old at some point in your life and experience the pain of flagging bones. In all of these situations, you will always need to maintain one thing, a positive perspective.
Number two, we need a friend. That’s right, a friend to help us defeat our fiend. Question is, who will you make your friend to be? Will it be your father, and then he wakes up dead the next day and you still need a friend? Will it be that smart girl in your class, and then she arrogantly turns her back on you when she meets someone of her own level and you’re still with no friend? Will it be yourself, and then you wake up with the skies turned grey tomorrow and in need of someone to lift you up, but no one is there?
How convenient is it to keep messing around with the same deleterious, wicked and inefficient people and then expect progressive results. To not trust your relatives, your employers and the people around you and yet still feel obliged to keep them, feigning a smile each time they walk into the room.
Your friend should be someone who is totally opposite from anyone deleterious, wicked, inefficient and untrustworthy. You deserve no one lest than a friend you can depend on at every level of your life until death put you to rest. It must be someone who will keep reminding you that there’s meaning to life and that your existence adds to that meaning.
"For Every Level There Is My Abiding Friend?” Who is it going to be that friend who will make you sing those words everyday at the top of your voice? When you do find him, when you do find that loyal friend who’ll stick by you through thick and thin to help you defeat your fiend, regard yourself as some who is YoungWize. Until next time, do not succumb to a defeat by the fiend!
Ah-Liang T E