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Date Posted: 07:33:00 07/24/01 Tue
Author: Betsy
Subject: Re: Yo, SM
In reply to: Betsy 's message, "Yo, SM" on 07:22:19 07/24/01 Tue

Sorry, I hit the wrong key and chaos reigned!

Here's the deal: Since life is suffering, what's the payoff? Where's the worth? Is the worth (value) in the struggle? For me, the value or worth must be almost totally contained in the struggle. Or maybe that's just one of the perks of evolution. If we continue to struggle, we survive. But, I repeat, what's the payoff? Now, being bi-polar, I know too well what the payoff is for struggling - sooner or later (just like the weather) everything changes and goes hurtling into a different direction. Sometimes, for a little while, my world gets happier, more interesting, involved, creative, etc. Good, it just gets pretty good. And yet, sometimes even that phase or period of time becomes too full, too overcrowded, too much. Then, I notice I'm suffering all over again. Perhaps, being bi-polar, I am painfully aware of the origin of suffering: The desire to escape the present situation. The desire to run away and let your mind invent something else to buffer the fear of being stuck where I am - wherever that is. The end of that suffering is acceptance, yet I also know to quit struggling might produce bad consequences for me, anyway.

Anyway, I'm getting a bit off the subject. How do you decide whether to struggle and if the payoff is worth it?

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