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Master Don Juan
Feeling bad? Feel miserable about yourself? Feeling like a dead-weight drifting through the world? Read on, and I bet you'll feel better...
Even after having finished the book/play Hamlet for the third time, I always get to a certain point in the play and feel immensely better about anything which may be troubling me. In Act 5, Scene 1 (the churchyard), Hamlet recites the famous and oft quoted "Alas, poor Yorick - I knew him" speech. If you delve into the meanings of Shakespeare's words, you're given an incredibly simple and powerful look on life.
The whole point of the speech is how amazing it is that the lowly commoner of a court jester (Yorick) now shares the same the boat as someone as reknown as Ceasar or Alexander the Great. Why? Because they're all dead, and now all skeletons in the earth, each indecipherably different than any other body buried in the ground.
What does this have to do with feeling better about yourself? Its simple - No matter how much you beat yourself up and kick yourself down, you're ultimately going to meet the same final destination as any President, supermodel, or millionaire. Death has no special scenarios for the successful - Everyone dies, everyone turns to dust, and thats the end of the line. Why think of yourself as sub-par or inadequate when you're really ultimately not? Despite the achievements or looks or success of anyone else in the world, and despite how jealous or longful you might be of those people, you're all nothing more than bones in the end, so it does no good to feel anything other than equality to them. It's just pointless to ever consider yourself or anyone else on levels, absolutely pointless. It's even a little humbling to think of yourself and everyone else you might consider yourself "above" as meeting the same fate.
So, if you get dumped/rejected/disappointed, dont let yourself down. Dont think you can't do something, and don't think you're not anything more or less than anyone else. You're all equals no matter what you think, so don't believe anything else. Given this, don't hold back or back away from something because you think "oh, they're too good for me" or whatever, because its absolutely bullsh!t to think that way. Who cares what the outcome is, the point is that you let yourself be free and never, ever deny yourself anything simply because you dont think you're good enough. Ever.
Even after having finished the book/play Hamlet for the third time, I always get to a certain point in the play and feel immensely better about anything which may be troubling me. In Act 5, Scene 1 (the churchyard), Hamlet recites the famous and oft quoted "Alas, poor Yorick - I knew him" speech. If you delve into the meanings of Shakespeare's words, you're given an incredibly simple and powerful look on life.
The whole point of the speech is how amazing it is that the lowly commoner of a court jester (Yorick) now shares the same the boat as someone as reknown as Ceasar or Alexander the Great. Why? Because they're all dead, and now all skeletons in the earth, each indecipherably different than any other body buried in the ground.
What does this have to do with feeling better about yourself? Its simple - No matter how much you beat yourself up and kick yourself down, you're ultimately going to meet the same final destination as any President, supermodel, or millionaire. Death has no special scenarios for the successful - Everyone dies, everyone turns to dust, and thats the end of the line. Why think of yourself as sub-par or inadequate when you're really ultimately not? Despite the achievements or looks or success of anyone else in the world, and despite how jealous or longful you might be of those people, you're all nothing more than bones in the end, so it does no good to feel anything other than equality to them. It's just pointless to ever consider yourself or anyone else on levels, absolutely pointless. It's even a little humbling to think of yourself and everyone else you might consider yourself "above" as meeting the same fate.
So, if you get dumped/rejected/disappointed, dont let yourself down. Dont think you can't do something, and don't think you're not anything more or less than anyone else. You're all equals no matter what you think, so don't believe anything else. Given this, don't hold back or back away from something because you think "oh, they're too good for me" or whatever, because its absolutely bullsh!t to think that way. Who cares what the outcome is, the point is that you let yourself be free and never, ever deny yourself anything simply because you dont think you're good enough. Ever.
Good Post.