Uros on May 14th, 2009

I am still strongly convinced in the existence of fairy tales… Because I am the main star in one. And next time you define happiness with money and material goods, you should watch the following movie (Slumdog Millionaire (2008)). There are many people living way below our standards, with no access to services and goods we take as most trivial and granted, but still I could bet I can find as many if not more happy and blissful people amongst them. So be grateful for what you got, always strive for improvement (within reasonable limits), enjoy your life and make others to enjoy theirs too. Because we all have theability to live the life of suffering and sorrow and we also have the ability to enjoy every day, relationship, person or event in its blissfulness. It all depends on attitude towards life we choose for ourselves…

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Uros on May 14th, 2009

Probably the biggest mistake I had been doing in my life was the apologetic approach with which I unconsciously terrorized everything, I had acted upon. That kind ofbehavior is practically always highly unattractive and makes you to repress all potentially “bad” aspects of your personality and habits (so you don’t need to be ashamed of them to often) and makes you some kind of a highlight of your personality traits, that are approved by the masses surrounding you. You become a nice guy in eyes of many, but on the other hand, you are killing a part of yourself with such self-repression. And as you can guess, that kind of behaviour is very far from total self-expression and consequently fromhappiness. But you’re beloved by the masses you say… Isn’t that something?
No, it isn’t, believe me. That way you become just one more of so many, a creature of tradition, with habits and values dictated by others. With no clear mission or purpose you would like to guide your lite to, and quite likely incapable of critical thinking. You become Just one more of the repeaters, guided and manipulated for benefits of others, nothing else than a passive player of your own life. With your wishes dictated by the marketers, self-esteem degraded by commercials, your free time exchanged for bad quality TV entertainment, and opportunities for analysis of thoughts and meditation polluted by the music from your iPod. TV news are terrorizing you with fear and conditioning you in scarcity of real knowledge and real news, to reject every culture and every fellow man, that is at least slightly different. We become likesheep and even worse; we don’t even need a sheep dog, while we, with our criticism and rejection of every deviation, force ourselves and others to realign back tothe path of the purpose of which we usually don’t have a slightest idea. Probably not the life you’re dreaming of…
So what is there to do? Just be unique, don’t be afraid to express the full spectrum of your personality… There is nothing to be ashamed of. Of course you make mistakes, we all do… So why should you regret them? Unless they are contradicting to your system of values, that is not a worthy practice. And you have your own value system, don’t you? Not the one brainwashed to you by your religion or some similar institution, but the one you really and sincerely believe in. The one that would really boost meaning to your life and sharp its core purpose. And for God’s sake, live your own life! (the same goes for me to ;) ) You owe this to your “Creator”; may it be a chimpanzee, or some extremely advanced intelligence. So in some way, you become a “bad boy” with nice values. Unapologetic about hisweaknesses, critical thinking, purpose guided and by value system oriented person, experiencing life at its fullest and appreciating others for what they are in their core and not to be limited by their prejudices and criticism. At least that is where I am heading forquite some time now and positive results are already evident…

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Uros on May 12th, 2009

Someone told me recently, what do I know, since I do not attach to anything, but as you can guess, this is very far from truth (I mean about attaching :) ).
Since I believe the only criticism worth taking in account is only a well argumented one, I would like to point out why I disagree with this statement an why a response like that as a childish and irresponsible one.

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