How to Never Suffer Another Day in Your Lifetime

So to preface this whole ramble, I myself have gone through a lot of suffering in my life. No, I was not born in a war zone. I never had a close family member die suddenly. I was not severely injured or experienced any intense poverty.

But I still suffered immensely. And that is because suffering is created within the mind itself. You are the creator of your own suffering.

It took me over a decade of deep suffering to understand this. For the longest time I was under the belief that I was the main character in this life. I was a separate entity with complete separateness from the world and people around me. I didn’t feel like I fit into the fabric of the culture I was immersed in nor did I see the point.

I was suffering. Smoking weed on a daily basis. Spending hours glued to a computer screen. Having to deal with a stressful home situation and a relentlessly nagging father. This was the fuel for my misery.

At one point my psyche detached from myself and I experienced prolonged of depersonalization, seeing yourself from outside of your body and that the things around you aren’t real. It was terrifying and isolating to say the least.

I didn’t see the point in anything. I had absolutely no reason to live. Nothing excited me about life and I felt trapped by it.