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On the phone with a friend tonight, I ended up giving him some advice after events this weekend made him sad. My advice basically consisted of, "if you're unhappy, look at what you might be doing yourself that makes you unhappy and consider changing it." My friend has put some limitations on himself that leave him unfulfilled. While he gets some satisfaction from living up to them, he might get more satisfaction if he didn't, just so long as he doesn't hurt anyone.

Anyway, as I'm telling him he should focus on his happiness, we only get one life (even if there's an afterlife, I bet we start all over again, and next time we might not be fabulously gay), rather than letting life pass him by he should enjoy it and open up all kinds of new possibiilties in the process...yeah, as I'm telling him this, a tiny, quiet whisper of a voice somewhere in the back of my head is saying "HEY, YOU IDIOT!!! WHY DON'T YOU TRY TAKING THAT ADVICE YOURSELF SOMETIME INSTEAD OF LETTING YOURSELF BE TOTALLY UNHAPPY FOR A YEAR OR SO!?!?!?" WHY DON'T YOU FIX WHATEVER'S MAKING YOU UNHAPPY?!?!?!?!"

Yeah, my inner voice has a bit of a 'tude.

Anyway, point taken.

Labels: Life, Wandering Mind