Good News & Bad News: Prelude to the sequel "F@*k You, Do Better"

Good news: Life Is Easy. Bad News: Life is Hard.

"You can't just be vaguely contradictory like that. You will confuse and irritate your readers." Thank you conveniently placed reader, that irritation is what I'm going for. Most people have heard phrases like life is hard or life's not fair or my personal favorite deal with it. In reality, bad things happen. There is no real way of sugar coating it. But have you ever thought that people may be adding salt to their happiness. "What does that even mean? You celebrate happy moments" Ah read of questionable existence, I would like to introduce you to a concept of this too shall pass. Stating very literally that any event or moment in life, good or bad, will pass. If you look at a vacation for example. Before your vacation you feel amazing about going. You think about all the things that you'll do in the vacation and how relax you'll feel when you don't have to be working or going to school. Then just before the vacation ends, after you've gotten some of the relaxing done, you feel really sad or upset. You feel bad that it's ending. You come to the realization that this vacation, this moment shall pass. You can even have this feeling before you even get to your vacation. This kind of feeling can make it really hard to enjoy that moment. This can even happen for things like the weekend or just feeling good about getting home to go to sleep and then remember the to-do list you have. People will often use the phrase this too shall pass when referring to bad moments to make themselves feel better in the short term. Many people don't realize they unconsciously use it more often than they think and are still using it wrong. The actual idea of the phrase is that you find peace in that statement. The only problem is no one explains how to find peace in it. They apply it heavily on the good and the bad. The bad is only temporary but it doesn't make you feel any better about how you feel in the moment. The good is only temporary and it makes you feel like the good will never last. So instead of a sense of peace in the world and in oneself you feel rather bad. So let's go in depth into why this too shall pass and how it's a better thing than you expect.

How did you feel when you woke up today? Did you get up feeling rested and sure about your direction in life? Did you feel bogged down and like you pretended to sleep much like you pretend at life? Did you do something new and add to your future? Did you repeat the same routine knowing nothing will fix the mess you didn't cause? Did you compare today to yesterday? Did you compare today to tomorrow? Why am I asking you questions about your morning and what does it have to do with a philosophical phrase that makes you feel like I punched sadness into your soul? Everything, if you must know. All the questions I asked were less about what breakfast you ate, if you even ate breakfast, and more about your perspective. How you get up in the morning can dictate how you feel for the rest of the day. What most people don't know is you get to choose how you feel in the morning. If you wake up not rested and think "Man I'm tired." You then have a thought about that thought and based on what your default perspective is. If your outlook or perspective is generally negative your next thought will be closer to " Well that's what I expected I'm always tired." The belief showing itself in that very sentence. The negative beliefs being " I'm always tired." If you have a more positive believe then next thought is closer to " Well I guess I need to make sure I get to bed earlier. Maybe I should get some coffee." The belief still showing itself in that sentence too. 

"There is no obvious phrase in the positive belief you're making things up!" You convenient reader, are becoming more aware by the second I love it. So the belief shown in that last thought is that the tired does not define your person, but is a symptom of an event you can control. The belief is "I feel tired. I can do something about it." Now those are small beliefs that stem off of deeper beliefs. The deeper beliefs are what lay in the subconscious and dictate the thoughts that you have on all of your actions and your perspectives on your actions. So the negative belief brought down to the subconscious would most likely stem from the belief "I have no control over the world."