One of humanity’s greatest struggles is the fact that we are almost never “at peace.” The ceaseless search for comfort, novelty, protection, and sustenance has been—and always will be—the foundation of our survival and the prosperity of our “lineage.”
This magical trigger, which is embedded in the deepest recesses of our mental “chips,” often leads us to have thoughts or take actions that leave us almost perplexed as to how they could arise without us consciously thinking (pardon the linguistic redundancy) about them.
There is always something that propels us—our mind, and consequently our attention—toward the future or the past. We are constantly comparing and evaluating our surroundings—and not only that. Even our emotions, the signals we feel within ourselves, are evaluated down to the tiniest detail.
A situation that seemed perfectly normal to us just over two weeks ago may already seem completely inadequate today, simply because we’ve seen that “the other person” has something “better.” We always want what the other person has, or what the other person has achieved.
We never look at the “why” and the reasons behind it. We only see the end result—the “prize,” so to speak.
We’re never “happy” where we are. We always want what we don’t currently have. And if, for some reason, we achieve it, at that very moment, we have to find “something” that makes us run “after a carrot” all over again...
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