2006-10-25 02:40:59 · 49 answers · asked by sotu 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Just trying to be something , in order to do something, so as to have something.... the reverse order works better.
Plainly presented, desire is the source of all misery. 'Deserve before you desire' is the remedy. Trying to have what we like , instead of trying to like what we have !
2006-10-25 05:10:20 · answer #1 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Two main things.
First, I have never found love again that is even a pale shadow of my first doomed from the beginning love.
Next, I had a passion for a high risk sport, lived and breathed it, gave it most of my time and focus for 15 years. Was totally self indulgent about it but I felt it justified my existence, it was high risk high reward and I knew just how lucky I was to get a chance to be involved. It ended a couple years ago when I was at the top of my game with my goals set much higher. I went into and clawed my way out of a 9 month depression.
To live without a passion is not really living. My life has become a prison work camp. I feel like I have gone from dragonfly to worker ant.
On the bright side, there is a world full of new things to become passionate about, just need to find that next thing that challenges and consumes me and one big misery gone, replaced by the heady drug of passion.
2006-10-25 03:30:30 · answer #2 · answered by hankthecowdog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am my own worst enemy, so I say *I* am the source of misery in my life. My problem is that I believe I think too much. I could also choose NOT to think so much and overanalyze things, but I also tend to have a perfection complex, again something I CHOSE to do. I always want the answers, and the best possible answers. But, I don't HAVE to do this. So, like I said, I think I am the source of my own misery.
2006-10-25 03:07:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Emotional vampire used to be the source of misery in my life, I never had time to deal with the things that mattered to me because I had to deal with other peoples problems, my own fault for been too soft, but I got a grip and got rid of them, life is so much better now with no misery.
2006-10-26 03:51:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say that Helplessness is the source of all my miseries.
I need to elaborate though. In everyone`s life misery does not descend all of a sudden.In any situation people try to seek solution.. be it earning, health, relationship. Repeated failures to solve the problem slowly settles down as a misery, a kind of chronic problem..
It is at this stage we run out of solutions and become totally helpless.
2006-10-25 04:47:14 · answer #5 · answered by YD 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The biggest source of misery in my life is a lack of money which has a domino effect on the rest of life. The biggest problem is that I cannot visit my boyfriend as often as I would like because he lives in a different county.
2006-10-25 02:58:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are two sources of misery in my life, but I don't let either get me down because life is too short...
1. Money
2. Jobsworths
Both as bad as each other :)
2006-10-25 02:45:27 · answer #7 · answered by gromitski 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Me. By that I mean, foolish decisions, not living to my potential. Not always learning from my mistakes. Not always seizing the moment. Procrastination. All of these things, of course, are inherently human. But sometimes, overcoming human nature is the difference between mediocrity and greatness. Think about individuals who truly stand out in life; how they worked hard at being successful despite all the odds. Human nature would tell them to settle, to give in, to accept. I believe it is those things that are a source of misery.
An excellent question! Thanks for the opportunity to answer.
2006-10-25 14:10:10 · answer #8 · answered by littlebunny101 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This may surprise some, but I have no misery in my life. I am at peace and content with what I have and who I am. Even though things may not always go the way I want them to I have faith that everything will work out in the end.
2006-10-25 03:19:13 · answer #9 · answered by Rixie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Over the past few years I have managed to leave the world of form behind me and entered a formless world which is in fact heaven on earth and is what the Buddha calls a state of enlightenment.
Don't get me wrong I still enjoy form……..while it lasts. I accept the impermanent nature of the world and am therefore at peace - People, situations, money 'things' come and go from my life and when they go there is no clinging, no pain at their departure. Ultimately I am in a state of complete freedom from attachment to the outside world which may sound cold but is in fact the warmest place I have ever been in my life. I am in a state of almost perpetual bliss.
No matter what happens to me in the outside world, this bliss never wavers, is steady and as deep as a lake of infinite space where time does not exist.
Anyone can achieve this shift of consciousness by just living completely in the present moment.
2006-10-25 03:55:32 · answer #10 · answered by abluebobcat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The greatest source of my misery is not living up to my expectations of myself. When I act in a way not in accordance with what I believe to be the highest or best path, it always comes back to haunt me.
2006-10-25 02:50:43 · answer #11 · answered by Irish Wander 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋