What You Are Anxious About

This world is 'full of suffering'.

What is it that you are anxious about right now?

Is it money?
Is it the future?
Is it love?
Is it relationships?

Or is it'Am I okay just the way I am?'—a voice in your heart that you cannot tell anyone?

Are you living a fun life without any anxiety at all?

The modern age is a time with too many invisible anxieties.
If you open social media, someone's success flows by, and someone's happiness is projected.

Then, people unconsciously compare themselves to others.

'That person is doing well,'
'I am the only one being left behind,'
there are days when you feel that way and cannot sleep at night.

However, the Buddha said this a long time ago:

'The mind is disturbed because we believe that things which change will remain unchanged.'

People's feelings, work, money, and environments are not eternal.

That is precisely why we become anxious.
We suffer because we do not want to lose things.

Love is the same.

'What if I am hated?'
'What if they leave me?'
That anxiety is born precisely because you love the other person.

But perhaps true love is not'binding the other person,'but rather'the courage to accept things as they change.'

There is also financial anxiety.

You need money to live.
You also need to prepare for the future.
Therefore, it is natural to feel anxious.

However, if you look at the future only with anxiety, you lose'the present.'

The philosopher Senecasaid this.

People suffer more in their imagination than in reality.

In other words, much of our suffering is born from fearing a future that has not yet happened.

The Buddha also taught,The mind is restless. That is why it is important to calm it..

You probably cannot reduce your anxiety to zero.
Because you are human.

But you can live without being consumed by anxiety.

For example, living today with care.
Sleeping properly.
Being kind to someone.
Looking up at the sky.
Not blaming yourself too much.

Even just doing those things will help your heart become quiet little by little.

And above all, you are not alone.

Right now, somewhere in this world, there is someone who is struggling just like you, holding back tears just like you, yet still trying to look forward.

So, there is no need to rush.

Life is not a journey to win by comparing yourself to others.

It is a journey of understanding yourself, little by little.

If your heart is in darkness right now, you do not have to force yourself to smile.

Just acknowledgethe self that lived through today.

The Buddha left these words:

To remain calm and undisturbed by the events of the world. That is the highest happiness.

It will be okay.

Just as spring always follows winter, a day will come when light quietly shines into your life as well.

Until that day, please do not hate yourself.

Part Two

Introduction to Articles by Brilliant Creators

Notice
I am currently writing an article that summarizes how I regained the

joy of living after experiencing depression, a suicide attempt, and time in a closed psychiatric ward. For those who are suffering in the same way, I have written about how to settle the mind, incorporating my own real-life experiences and Buddhist philosophy.

I hope this reaches those who need it.

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