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- Sep 6, 2019
Learning this on my own was the key to setting myself on a path that didn't end with a belt or a bullet. These days it's very, very easy for people to always be caught in a loop of "I need better" or "I should be mad about X" or "Y is terrible" and so on. Doubly so if you're a loner so your only social interactions are through online spheres where such viewpoints are pushed constantly to drive engagement, or brought up constantly due to how much they're pushed elsewhere. You can easily see that a lot of people on this site, men and women both, have either this mentality or a mentality that's based in similarly self-perpetuating negative thought loops.if you have it the best you possibly can and you are still unhappy, you might want to re-evaluate your expectations
In broad strokes, you need to choose to let it go. You cannot change reality on a whim, and some things can't be reversed at all. You can, however, exercise sufficient mental mastery to silence non-constructive thought patterns. If your rational brain tells you "Yeah this is okay", but your subconscious is still making you miserable, you need to first make sure you're not just coping with your rational mind. Sometimes you might be lying to yourself because you want to be okay with something, but you really aren't. It's important to be totally honest with yourself because if there is something you're unsatisfied with and can change, denying it won't help.How to deal with lingering bitterness, my fellow farmers?
Once you do that, then you should start making mental habits to change how your subconscious views things. Really, the inside of your mind (the subjective mental experience) is just a series of looping sequences of information that constantly tell you who you are, what you want to do, what you remember, and so on. It's malleable to some degree, and it has been shaped by your life experiences. What you want to do is manually shape it a little bit. For some people, they can do it alone. Some need therapy. Some need religion. Some might need a joint or two. Everyone is different. You need to figure out where you are on that, and get what you need to be able to make the choice to leave bitterness behind. Needing help doesn't mean you're weak or lesser, and once again you need total self-honesty to determine if you're capable of doing it alone, or if you need some kind of assistance.
Peace, mentally speaking, is a choice, just not an easy one sometimes. It can take a while, it's not an overnight thing, but it is worth it.