Numb

There's a lot of focus on numbing down our pain. We drown ourselves in work, alcohol, cheap TV shows and movies, stupid music with stupid lyrics (because smart lyrics remind us of what's real and hurts), food... you name it. Don't cry, it makes you weak. Pain makes you weak.

It's a self defense mechanism, but like all other self defense mechanisms, it works like a double edged sword. It doesn't just numb down your pain, it numbs YOU and your chance of happiness with it. If you don't open up to pain, you close the door on happiness just as much.

Think about being on your deathbed and looking down your days. Imagine that you die tomorrow and all you've done in your life was drink, eat and work. How would that make you feel? If there's at least a small part of you that's scared of that possibility or creeped out by the thought, then there's something in you that needs changing.

Don't drown down the thought with the common sentence "but I'm not gonna die tomorrow". You don't know that. Nobody knows that for sure. All you know and all you've got is what you've already done.

You may think that this is in contradiction with this post (assuming you read it). But the purpose of today's post is not "throw everything out the window and live like there's no tomorrow". The purpose of this post is simple and to the point: do more than nothing.