Depressed? Seems like this comes up every couple of months for me..
05-20-2018, 01:42 PM
Hey man, welcome to the United Slave States of America.
Because let's face it, that's what the elites and the world want to make you into. A pawn. They tell you what to want, what to think, where to work, etc. It's the prison that so many people find themselves in without even knowing. The good news is, you can break out of it too. The bad news is that it isn't going to be easy.
My man, I would bet a good amount of money you are operating your life in the absence of a plan. This isn't something that can be taught, which is why so few people get to experience it. Your plan has to be so ironclad, that a few bumps in the road aren't going to throw it off. No, it's gotta be tough. Bulletproof. Waterproof, and airtight.
That feeling that you should be accomplishing more in life tells me I'm on the money. The elephant in the room, is you're operating your life without a mission and without a purpose. The regrets are creeping up because you're more concerned with what could have been, because you're not moving forward towards what will be.
"So IB" you say "That's some nice hippy shit, but what does this have to do with me being depressed? How can I use this to change my life?"
No problem. I've got you covered. Let's take a journey back into history, yeah?
Your ancestors lived short and reckless lives. They hunted, fed, and fucked without abandon knowing that they could die on any given day, either at the hand of their fellow man, or at the maw of some savage beast, or most likely of all the changing of the climate. Men lived, procreated, and died, many before they reached the tender age you now find yourself at. They had one purpose: live long enough to pass on their genes.
Then came subsistence farming. Man toiled under the sweat of his brow to provide for his family. Life was hard, and some winters he went hungry after the crop yield was just not enough, but even under the scorching sun, he persevered. Each men fed his family, and lived life with one purpose: live to pass his genes, and then hopefully long enough afterwards to see his spawn grow and flourish into the same niche.
As ages past, fewer and fewer were needed to farm in order to sustain population centers, and that left man with a question, the one you now face: what do I do now to make use of this heady and substantial power for creativity and thought? No more was it confined to a few hours of leisure by a fire, or after the fields had been sowed. It was now the forefront of conscious thought. A man could make himself into anything. Some rose to power as kings, while others chose to invent, or write the classics of literature. Some turned to scholarly pursuits, while others trained with militaristic discipline. Although the morals of the past prevented a man from occupying whatever niche he saw fit, his choices were far greater than his caveman ancestors. He would give himself to a pursuit, and let that pursuit become him. From that pursuit came certainty, and masculine confidence. There's a reason we view masters of a craft as masculine, as mastery is a masculine trait.
So I ask you now my friend, what in your life are you the master of? What is it that calls you to action? That one burning desire, that one singular passion that grips you, that you fantasize about in the dark?
Find it. Don't let go of it. Hold on to it. It will become the foundation for what I'm about to say next.
Then, you let your life become it. Not through passivity and inaction, hoping for something to happen. No. Those are the means of the feminine woman. A man takes. What are you taking now? It seems, not enough considering you feel that your achievement is not where it should be and you ruminate on past actions.
So, let's revisit the plan I talked about earlier. Your plan is the series of steps you must take in order to make your life's mission successful. There are going to be a number of detailed steps you have to take. Many of them will be difficult, and likely take years to accomplish. Your mission will take years, most likely even decades to accomplish. However, the amount of time it will take will no longer be daunting, but a much anticipated journey you leap out of bed every morning to continue on. That is the power of your mission. When you are so singularly focused on achieving your life's mission through a detailed plan, a mission you are so overwhelmingly passionate about, everything else will become noise. Depression is no more when you take action daily, and build for yourself a life, a life your ancestors and their singular purpose could not have imagined.
Let them look upon you in awe, as you proactively strive for this mission. A good mission will help you start your own business, and break free from the "trade time for money" mentality that plagues the American workplace. A good plan will tell you if you really want to travel, and indeed, where you need to travel to, in order to accomplish your mission. A good plan will help you decide which opportunities will help your mission, and which may hurt them, banishing the demons of perceived missed opportunities.
Above all, your mission, and the plan that goes with it will help you kick the malaise of a man beaten down by what "society" tells him to do. It will prevent you from being another neat little cog in the machine, and help you seize the life you want, and cure the malaise of your mind and soul.
If you want more specific advice on this OP, please don't hesitate to PM me. This is your call to action.
