Lets talk logic,
Are you a grown up who makes decisions everyday for everything you do? Do you have a job and are proud of it, get there on time day in day out, week after week, years after year? Did your parents teach you about to do this don’t do this? What does your law and order of the land says about everything you do? What does your religions say about your actions in everyday of your life? and finally, Do you feel you choose to abide by the law and order, or religious rules?
Do you think about what kind of decision power do you have? What kind of responsibilities do you carry on your shoulders? If you say I am responsible for all the departments of my life then you are a CEO of your life, yes the big boss, the big kahuna who calls the shots, who hires or fires the ideologies provided to you by the time and era you are born and living in.
How would you response to the situations if you were born ten or fifty thousands years ago? Would it matter, If you are fat, thin, bald, black, white, brown or any other problems do you think you face right now? What do you see in your future say you are going to be born five hundred years from now? In just last fifty years humanity has taken a big leap of faith, how much are we going to change is just not up in the air, it is a reality. Embracing it would be a good idea otherwise you are not only going to be left behind you may end up in a personal predicaments like committing spiritual crimes against the humanity, just like it is happening right now all over the world.
Where I am going with this is that your immediate problems you are facing right now may be are baseless. You just may have an identity crisis and are trying to fit in, impress or be admired. What do you feel at this time of your life?
If you think you have problems, I want you to pull yourself from the situation and sit about hundred feet up higher and look at the problems as a mortal entity. Say a mortal entity has one hundred years to live, if you can make it there. Life is full of situations and circumstances it is not a situation or a circumstance. Siting out side of the situation or circumstances can be done if you really believe that you are not just the body or an extension of the society you belong to. Now ask yourself again,
Can you do that? I am sure you can, but always remember you are not the body or the person a society has created, you simply live in a body to do your life and you are the one who over rides everything as a CEO. The body which is mortal, gets old and die, no ifs or buts, so it is your responsibility to live your life as it fits in the plan of the CEO. No situation or circumstance is above the law of the CEO.
If you let the trends, friends social rules, traditions, customs, or religious duties rule your life it is still up to you, but one fact still remains that you have and it should be always remembered that you are a CEO of your life with a certain amount but limited time.
Societies, religions, and laws and order expect the individual to live life according to their rules but the problem is that they carry on living but you lose life, so what to do in this kind of very personal situation? If you live amongst the people whom don’t understand where you stand you move to where they do, if it is not possible become a politician of your personal life so you don’t get killed because in the end of the day no life no CEO. So do live life with the practices to enhance your mortal journey instead of sabotaging it.
You can eat whatever and whatever amount, become obese, have health problems and die sooner it is still your choice. You can exercise the hell out of your body just to find out that you screwed up, looked great but lost health in the end by doing too much, even if you did it for society, since you did it, it is still your choice.
That is the reason I have come up with the triangle philosophy it is not about the extreme it is about taking charge and becoming a CEO, and making decisions what are good for your life project. You could make choices to end up in jail, and spend rest of your life behind the bars of jails created by the societies, or you can put yourself in the jail of yourself, still it is your choice. Mortal life should contain the component of happiness and contentment otherwise it is a waist of life for yourself, for society may be useful but unfortunately it is a choice as well.
Being fat or not so good looking according to the standards of the times you are born in, is not the real scale it is how you look at yourself what matters. If society tells you something it is not a reality, until you buy into it and make your life a suffering journey. Still your choice, I can’t address the importance of being a CEO for the individual.
If your car is running great but it is not as shiny as you like it to be because you can’t impress your friends or other people around with it, but it is still running. You can work your ass off to get a shiny car but it can just sit in the garage and is no good for anything, it is shiny though. Your life is not only about the others around you it is about you as well, so it is you who has to look out for your personal interests, if not it is your choice and you just can’t complain about the problems you face because of your personal identity crisis. By no means I am preaching to become selfish it is about the reciprocation from both sides. If you want to look at it a little deeply your personal happiness is strongly related with serving humanity.
I am talking about the mortality and being a CEO if you want a running shiny car all the time you are looking for a big trouble. Yes and that is losing happiness in a temporary journey, if you lose that, what you got left is the regrets, discontentment and life without the fulfillments. Your life is always going to be on the horizon and the present moments, well, it is your choice to live in the future and piss on the present and make your whole life a stinky affair, because the reality is that it is the present what makes the past.
Simple advice you just can’t live a CEO’s life if you sacrifice it for either future or the past, you may be a good head of the department by doing that but not a good CEO.
Simple and logical reality is that future is not here and the past is gone and you just can’t go back in time and change it. That is the reality and the more important reality is that you are mortal, that is the bitter pill you have to swallow. If you can do that, sooner the better.
I read some where long time ago so I am going to write as author unknown, I am going to translate it, hope it comes out right. “quote”
“If you have dirt all around you and you don’t want to get your feet dirty, you should wear shoes, don’t expect the world to lay a red carpet down for you.” end quote.
The triangle of the man on the top and sense of belonging on the bottom right and sense of freedom on the bottom left. The ideal place for a mortal is to be in the middle of the bottom line which balances the triangle. (I wish I could learn to draw the triangle for you but I am not that good with the computer, anyway just picture it in you mind.)
Being a CEO it is your job to understand your balance, you just can’t live life in imbalances because it causes grief for you especially if you have a mortal life. You lose happiness regardless, because if you have it good you still have to leave it behind. A nice looking body or face is going to change, you can’t be feeling bad about something what is happening to everyone.
If you value yourself according to the standards of the society you would lose happiness as you age so get with it, be a CEO and look at your life the way its meant to be. A mortal.