Chaos is King
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Introduction
Imagine a life where you had everything you wanted. All the money in the world, a seat at the table of the world’s most renowned celebrities or even having all the women or men you could ever think of. A smooth life, no struggles, no hardships, no flipping exams or school, and hell, you answer to no one. Just bliss, right… wrong you moron. That would probably be the worst life you could ever live and if you don’t believe me, give me 4 minutes to explain.
The necessity of struggle
Struggle is to the brain what food is to the body, Essential.
The brain is wired to monitor your whole being. It does this by regulating your body temperature when it isn’t right, or fixing your sugar levels when they go off the charts. Essentially what it's doing is finding a problem to solve and then creating a solution for it.
When there’s no struggle
What’s interesting is that, when it can’t find anything worthwhile to solve, any struggle, it creates its own and that’s when overthinking kicks in. Before you know it, you’re thinking of a thousand ways you could die, or your ex, or that movie that didn’t end the way you wanted it to.
On the flip side, your brain would opt into creating fantasies or illusions of how much you would triple your money on an aviator.
Conclusion
You see, when the brain finds a problem to solve, like when you have a task list to execute on, or an assignment to submit or whatever, it either tries and finds a solution and when it can’t find one, who knows, you might break down, only God knows. But, that’s not my point
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My biased thinking tells me that, a lot of times, the greatest fulfillment we can get is when we start solving our problems. When we finally can do things like paying our bills, taking our girl on a date, or just solving some problem we had before. That process of struggle and finally an achievement is what makes life worth living
Takeaways
- When faced with a challenge, embrace it. Try doing something about it. There’s always a solution. I mean, what can’t kill you can kill someone else right?
- Having no struggle is a struggle in itself. A struggle in the sense of your brain will create a new one for you and it will probably make you feel worse.
- Post-traumatic growth: Humans are wired to adapt to the environment and whether you believe it or not, when the environment forces you to grow hair on your skin because it's too cold, hair will grow.
- Stoicism, resilience, and reframing: Challenges and struggle offer us a chance to reframe our perspectives as a shot at cultivating our ability to cope and grow.
The paradox and irony of these is this.
We go through a struggle to eliminate the struggle which ends up creating a new struggle and the cycle starts all over again.
That’s why the wise men said... it's all fudged up.
Deuces ✌️
